ASSESMENT OF THE INJURY SEVERITY OF THE PEDESTRIAN LOWER LIMBS AT THE COLLISION WITH A VEHICLE
10.15660/AUOFMTE.2015-1.3095
Bogdan TOLEA, Csaba ANTONYA, Horia BELES
bogdan.tolea@unitbv.ro
Volume XXIV (XIV), 2015/1
—The purpose of the paper is to determine the severity of the injury that may appear at the collision of the frontal part of a vehicle with the pedestrian’s lower limbs. In this study, the bio-mechanic model of the lower limbs was constructed, in order to determine the bending moment of the tibia. The collision forces that were used as input data were collected from a simulation performed in a traffic accident reconstruction software. The developed multi-body simulation is considering all forces acting on the lower limb. The injury severity is estimated using the bending moment of the tibia.
Keywords— Accident, collision, injury, leg, multi-body, pedestrian
ISSN 1583-0691, CNCSIS "Clasa B+"