• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제14권11호
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• pp.1232-1243
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• 2000

Motor vehicle accidents in rear impacts cause more than fifty percents of drivers to suffer from neck injuries. It is known that most neck injuries are associated with rear-end collisions at a speed lower than 32 km/h and between the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) 1 and AIS 2. Two different types of low speed crash tests such as the frontal barrier and rear moving barrier crashes have been conducted by following the procedure of the Research Committee for Automobile Repairs (RCAR). The injury for the neck and the Head Injury Criteria (HIC) were measured by using the sensors mounted on dummies. We reviewed neck injures and the relationship between the neck and head injuries, and examined the deceleration of the body. Using the experimental test data at the neck, we investigated an improved neck injury criterion Nij. Also, the effects of the position of a head restraint on reducing the frequency and severity of the neck injury in rear-end collisions were investigated.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2011년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1439-1440
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• 2011

• Composites Research
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.253-258
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• 2023

교통수단의 발전은 이동이 불편한 장애인들의 이동권 보장을 실현하였지만 차량사고시 발생할 수 있는 장애인 탑승객의 안전 향상은 일반 승객좌석에 비해 낮다고 할 수 있다. 특히 갑자기 발생할 수 있는 후방 추돌 사고의 경우 장애인 탑승객의 머리와 목 부상에 취약한 것이 현실이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 휠체어 운송 차량의 후방 추돌 시 차량내 장애인 탑승객의 머리와 목 상해지수 개선을 위해 headrest를 관상면으로 3등분한 multi-layer headrest foam이 제안되었다. 간이 모델을 통한 저속 후방 추돌 해석을 통해 foam의 다양한 압축 특성을 부여하기 위한 stress scale factor의 범위가 선정되었으며, 해당 범위를 parameter로 지정하여 GA최적화가 수행되었다. 최적화결과를 통해 layer의 압축 특성에 따른 HIC와 NIC간의 상간관계 분석이 이뤄졌으며, HIC는 Front layer, NIC는 Mid layer의 압축 특성에 가장 민감하게 반응하였고 Rear layer의 압축 특성은 가장 낮게 나타났다. Validation model에 일반headrest와 최적화된 multi-layer headrest를 각각 배치하여 저속 후방 추돌 sled test 해석을 수행하였으며, 일반headrest대비 multi-layer headrest에서의 HIC와 NIC가 낮게 도출되었다. multi-layer headrest에서의 압축 거동 역시 명확하게 나타나 multi-layer headrest가 일반headrest대비 머리와 목의 상해지수 개선에 효과적인 것이 검증되었다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.365-369
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• 2006

According to the IIHS (Insurance Institute fur Highway Safety), side impacts are made up 30% of all accidents (reported 1998). In the case of auto accidents, head and neck injuries were most common as 58%, injuries to the body's trunk equaled 32%, and injuries to the abdomen were 21%. Therefore in this study, injury of wheelchair occupant in frontal and side impact of wheelchair loaded vehicle was analyzed using computer simulation method. The occupant was restrained at the rear of wheelchair by the lap belt. The detailed fixation and restrain conditions of the wheelchair occupant are referred to SAR J2249's recommendation. We estimated HIC(Head Injury Criteria) and HNIC (Head and Neck Injury Criteria) based on measured data.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.179-187
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• 2004

In this study, for a safety assessment of wheelchair occupant in frontal and side impact of wheelchair loaded vehicle, a sled impact test was perfumed. Each test was carried out total 6 times, by using Hybrid III 50th-percentile male dummy in light weight and electric wheelchair. We estimate MC(Motion Criteria), CIC(Combined Injury Criteria), HIC(Head Injury Criteria), HNIC(Head and Neck Injury Criteria) based on measured data. Through this study, we make an assessment of risk analysis of wheelchair occupant and wheelchair. Through this study, safety standard of wheelchair is to be evaluated.

• 한국산학기술학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국산학기술학회 2006년도 춘계학술발표논문집
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• pp.109-111
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• 2006

본 논문은 보행자 머리 상해치 예측을 통해 보행자 보호 법규의 만족여부를 판단하는 시스템을 구축 하는데 있다. 차량의 FE DATA와 더미 DATA를 입력하고, MADYMO solver를 이용하여 해석을 수행한다. 이를 통해 나온 결과 HIC(머리상해치)와 보행자 보호 법규에서 제시하는 HIC(머리상해치)와 비교를 통해 만족여부를 판단한다. 강화되는 보행자 보호 법규를 만족시키기 위해 차량시스템을 개선을 유도 하고 이를 통해 차량 대 보행자 사고 시 보행자의 생명을 구하는데 그 궁극적인 목적이 있다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.15-21
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 경량휠체어 탑승자의 차량 전방충돌시 안전성 평가를 위하여 동적 슬래드 충격실험을 하였다. 실험은 총 6회 시행하였으며 충격속도는 20g/48 $\pm$2km/h 였고, Hybrid III 50%ile 성인남자 인체모형을 사용하여 두부손상기준(Head Injury Criteria), 목의 굴전모멘트, 축 인장력, 전단력, 흉부 가속도. 두부, 휠체어, 무릎의 전방 쏠림량을 측정하였으며 미국자동차학회 규격인 SAE J2249에서 제안한 동작기준 (Motion Criteria)과 미국 제너럴모터스사의 자체기준(GM-IARV)인 복합상해기준(Combined Injury Criteria)을 이용하여 안전성평가를 하였다. 실험결과는 경량 휠체어 탑승자의 전방 충돌 시 최대 상해치를 100%로 봤을 때 휠체어와 탑승자 거동의 위험도지수 MC는 52%, 탑승자의 상체 위험도지수 CIC는 60.1% 였다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.110-117
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• 2007

According to the pedestrian protection regulations of Europe and Japan, the head injury must not exceed a limitation in the defined test condition for the protection of pedestrians from a vehicle crash. However, it is difficult to evaluate the performance of protection because each regulation has different test conditions such as dummy, impact speed and so on. This circumstance needs the development of a model that describes the anthropometry of the crash victim with a sufficient accuracy. We constructed scaled pedestrian dummies using MADYSCALE. Simulations were performed for various crash speeds and pedestrian postures. The scaled Korean dummies and HybridIII dummies were used to compare the pedestrian dynamic behaviors and head injury criteria during the collision. The HIC values of scaled korean dummies were found to be higher than those of Hybrid III dummies. The impact for gait posture was less than that for standing.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제29권11호
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• pp.1518-1526
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• 2005

With increasing need of transportation services for people with disabilities and the aged, wheelchairs are used as their assistive devices to participate in daily and recreational activities and as seats of motor vehicle. However, as wheelchairs are primarily designed fer mobility assistive devices, not for vehicle seats, wheelchair users may experience serious injury when they meet car crashes. To date, neither engineering guidance for a wheelchair mounting system on the vehicle floor nor safety assessment analysis by a car crash has been studied for the domestic users. In this paper, in accordance with the ANSVRESNA WC-19, a fixed vehicle mounted wheelchair occupant restraint system (FWORS), wheelchair integrated restraint system (WIRS), and wheelchair integrated x-bend restraint system (WIXRS) subjected to frontal impact (20 g, 48 U) were analyzed using compute. simulations for domestic users. We present surrogate wheelchair occupant safety by head injury criteria (HIC), motion criteria (MC), and combined injury criteria (CIC).

• International Journal of Safety
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.21-26
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• 2011

In 2001, an independent official board was constituted in Japan to investigate aircraft and railway accidents. In the past 10 years, many accidents and serious incidents have been investigated and these official reports were published by the board, on which the author had sat for 9 years as boarding member. In the interim, there were several train disasters which mocked our trust in railways and also many apparent trivial incidents. In recent years, serious incidents, which a door of running rail cars opens suddenly with some trouble, happen 2 or 3 times in a year. For the past 10 years, such incidents have happened 14 times and 13 cases of them were closed by the board mentioned above. In these 13 cases, no one fell off the rail car, so that the death toll was none luckily. In this paper, these 13 serious incidents are picked up among all the reports published by the board and outlined using some tables. Especially, fall accidents of passengers are discussed mainly from the view point of impact force and duration time. Then, the equation of HIC (Head Injury Criteria) and the risk curves in terms of the HIC are dealt with properly.