Title: An advanced testing procedure for pedestrian-car collisions

Authors: Matthias Kuehn, Robert Froeming, Volker Schindler

Addresses: Gesamtverband der Deutschen Versicherungswirtschaft e. V., Verkehrstechnisches Institut der Deutschen Versicherungswirtschaft, Friedrichstrasse 191, 10117 Berlin, Germany. ' Technische Universitat Berlin, ILS - Fachgebiet Kraftfahrzeuge, TIB 13, Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25, 13355 Berlin, Germany. ' Technische Universitat Berlin, ILS - Fachgebiet Kraftfahrzeuge, TIB 13, Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25, 13355 Berlin, Germany

Abstract: There are concerns regarding the realistic implementation of real world pedestrian accident issues into the EEVC WG17 component testing procedure. The presented approach for a test procedure combines numerical simulations and component tests into a hybrid-test; it is able to solve most of the disadvantages of a conventional component. The key ideas of the hybrid-test will be presented in the paper: starting with a description of the pedestrian-car-collision, a suitable numerical model has been created. Multi body dummies are used to collide with passenger cars under a multitude of conditions (size of the pedestrian, relative location of car and pedestrian, relative speed). The procedure has been applied to two very distinct car models. As a result a statistical pattern describing the impact of pedestrians in a collision is generated for the two selected cars. It is shown that the results are considerably at variance to the testing conditions according to EEVC WG17.

Keywords: component tests; numerical simulation; pedestrian safety; test procedure; car accidents; pedestrian dummy; impact; accident analysis; vehicle safety; pedestrian kinematics; pedestrian injuries.

DOI: 10.1504/IJVS.2005.007539

International Journal of Vehicle Safety, 2005 Vol.1 No.1/2/3, pp.85 - 99

Published online: 03 Aug 2005 *

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