Head Injury Reduction in Automobile Pedestrian Impact

This article presents and discusses automobile hood/fender rail design to reduce head injury of pedestrians struck by the front of the vehicle. Fender seam designs are presented that reduce the head injury criterion values by over 50%. The procedures and analysis are conducted using a nonlinear dyna...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: David R. Lemmon, Ming-yi Wu, Ronald L. Huston
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 1994-01-01
Series:Shock and Vibration
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SAV-1994-1606