Field Facial Injuries and Study of Their Simulation with Dummy

C. Tarrière; Y. C. Leung; A.  Fayon; C. Got; A. Patel; P. Banzet

doi:10.4271/811013

1981-10-01

Field Facial Injuries and Study of Their Simulation with Dummy 811013

With drivers wearing 3-point seat belts, the head-steering-wheel impact occurs in most serious accidents, so inducing mainly face injuries.

In a first part, the authors analyze the injuries observed in a sample of 1180 belted drivers involved in frontal collisions, making a distinction, mainly for facial impacts, between injuries related to the properly so-called face and those to the skull and brain and the different possible lesional correlations.

In the second part are presented the results of work carried out in order to define a human face model adaptable to any type of Hybrid II or Hybrid III dummies' heads. The use of this model allows one to elaborate a new protection criterion for the face, destination of which should be to complete the head and skull protection criterion, such as the HIC (or another equivalent criterion which could possibly replace it).

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