TY  - CONF
A1  - Himmetoglu, S.
T1  - An evaluation of passive head-restraints with different stiffness and energy dissipation properties for whiplash mitigation
N2  - This study investigates the protection offered by passive head-restraints with different stiffness and energy dissipation properties. For this purpose, computational multi-body models of a generic car seat and a biofidelic 50thpercentile male human for rear impact are used to study different seat designs and passive head-restraints. The validated seat-occupant model is also used in the design of two different car-seat models which are shown to effectively mitigate whiplash by utilising a crash-energy distribution technique. Five different passive head-restraints with varying stiffness (low-medium-high) and energy dissipation percentages (low-high) are successively attached to four different car-seat models. The simulation results indicate that the protection offered by head restraints is strongly dependent on the seat design. It has also been shown that the stiffness of the passive head-restraint has much more influence on whiplash-risk in comparison to its energy dissipation capacity.
KW  - Auffahrunfall
KW  - Bewertung
KW  - Deutschland
KW  - Eigenschaft
KW  - Fahrzeugsitz
KW  - Konferenz
KW  - Kopfstütze
KW  - Schleudertrauma
KW  - Simulation
KW  - Steifigkeit
KW  - Verhütung
KW  - Conference
KW  - Evaluation (assessment)
KW  - Germany
KW  - Head restraint
KW  - Prevention
KW  - Properties
KW  - Rear end collision
KW  - Seat (veh)
KW  - Simulation
KW  - Stiffness
KW  - Whiplash injury
Y1  - 2017
UR  - https://bast.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1796
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:opus-bast-17962
ER  -