Modelling pediatric kinematics

Abstract

In the field of pediatric biomechanics, crash dumy and numerical model development suffers from to limited human subject data to directly establish response and injury values. In order to create child crash dummies and numerical models, it is necessary to combine the results from real world accident and reconstruction data, scaled adult data and data from animal testing with limited child volunteer data. This paper presents the functional and biomechanical targets for child crash dummies and numerical model