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Correlation Analysis between Wheelchair Multi-layer Headrest Foam Properties and Injury Index (Wheelchair Multi-layer headrest foam 특성과 상해지수간 상관관계 분석)

  • Sungwook Cho;Seungmin Ji;Seong S. Cheon
    • Composites Research
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.253-258
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    • 2023
  • Although the development of transportation means has realized the right to mobility for the disabled who have difficulty in moving, it can be said that the improvement of the safety of passengers with disabilities that can occur in a car accident is lower than that of ordinary passenger seats. In particular, in the case of a rear-end collision that can occur suddenly, it is a reality that disabled passengers are vulnerable to head and neck injuries. Therefore, in this study, a multi-layer headrest foam that divides the headrest into three parts in the coronal plane was proposed to improve the head and neck injury index of disabled passengers in the vehicle in the event of a rear-end collision of a wheelchair transport vehicle. A range of stress scale factors was selected to give various compressive characteristics of the foam through low-speed rear-end collision analysis through a simple model, and GA optimization was performed by specifying the range as a parameter. Through the optimization result, the phase relationship between HIC and NIC was analyzed according to the compression characteristics of the layers. HIC responded most sensitively to the compression characteristics of the front layer and NIC responded to the compression characteristics of the mid layer, and the compression characteristics of the rear layer showed the lowest. A normal headrest and an optimized multi-layer headrest were placed in the validation model to analyze the low-speed rear-end collision sled test, and HIC and NIC were derived lower in the multi-layer headrest than in the general headrest. The compression behavior of the multi-layer headrest was also clearly shown, and it was verified that the multi-layer headrest was effective in improving the injury index of the head and neck compared to the general headrest.

Statistical Model of Effective Impact Speed based on Vehicle Damages in Case of Rear-End Collisions

  • Kang, Sung-Mo;Kim, Joo-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.463-473
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    • 2008
  • In this study, we measure damage depth and calculate effective impact speed in case of rear-end collision using real car insurance data. We study the relationship between demage depth and effective impact speed, and present statistical model for these two variables. In our real data study, 3-degree polynomial equation model is better fit to effective impact speed and demage depth than the simple linear model that are estimated in previous other studies. Damage depth is a major factor to see the extent of impact in a car collision, and by using this equation, it is possible to evaluate the severity of driver's injury.

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Stildy on the Methodology to Prevent Neck Injury at tow Speed Rear-End Impact (저속 후면 추돌 시 목부상해 예방을 위한 연구)

  • Park Insong;Chun Yongbum;Kim Guanhee;Lim Jonghun
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.29-34
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    • 2005
  • 141,841 car-to-car collision had occurred in 2003, and among the accidents 51,796 were rear-end impact. According to insurance company for loss or damage, more than $60\%$ of rear-end impact victims suffer neck injury. This means at least 31,000 neck injury victims have happened in 2003. More than $97\%$ of the neck injury victims have low severity injury than A.I.S 2. Head restraint, which is designed to limit rearward head movement and equipped on seat, can considerably protect neck from rear-end impact. In this paper we evaluated head restraint geometry and drivers' sitting position according to RCAR standard and carried out low speed volunteer crash test. The crash speed is 4km/h and N.I.C value is used to determine injury probability. Through these research results we can introduce the method to prevent neck injury at rear-end impact.

A Study on Occupant Neck Injury in Rear End Collisions (후방추돌시 탑승자 목 상해 감소를 위한 연구)

  • 이재완;윤경한;박경진
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.130-138
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    • 2000
  • The position of the automobile seat back is very important for the neck injury in the rear-end collisions. The effects of the position have been evaluated experimentally. A sled simulator is utilized with a velocity of 33 km/h. The position is varied by the angle of seat back from 25 to 65 degrees. All the configurations of the seat are fixed except the angle. The neck injuries are calculated by the equations accepted in the industries. Also, the sled tests with other velocities are carried out for the comparison study. Using the results of the test, the effects of seat back strength are discussed to minimize the occupant neck injury in rear end collisions.

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Analysis of the effect on Road Network with Communication Failure Rate of C-ITS Information System for Rear-end Collision Avoidance (C-ITS 차량 추돌방지 지원 시스템의 통신 부하를 고려한 도로네트워크 영향 분석)

  • Kim, Jun-Yong;Kim, Jin-Tae
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.71-82
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    • 2016
  • Information System for rear-end collision avoidance is a unit service of C-ITS pilot project. Road environment that the number of vehicles at the same driving high-speed has a possibility that the communication delay or failure caused by heavy load of vehicle to vehicle communication. In this study, effects of the road network about a communication failure rate of information system for rear-end collision avoidance was analyzed quantitatively with micro traffic simulation. The simulation was carried out in situation that crash of two vehicles are occurred at merging area with speed limit 80km/h and information of collision is prvoided to the rear vehicle. From simulation results, it can confirm the trend of the increasing 14% of potential conflict according to 10% increasing of the communication failure rate. C-ITS service has a goal of increasing safety. The coommunication failure rate increases due to heavy load of vehicle causes a fatal result in road safety administrator position. For the success of C-ITS project, a communication system developers side should perform the effort to reduce the communication failure rate.

Development of Advanced Emergency Braking Algorithm for the enhanced longitudinal safety (종방향 안전도 향상을 위한 자동비상제동 알고리즘 개발)

  • Lee, Taeyoung;Yi, Kyongsu;Lee, Jaewan
    • Journal of Auto-vehicle Safety Association
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.56-61
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    • 2013
  • This paper presents a development of the Advanced Emergency Braking (AEB) Algorithm for passenger vehicles. The AEB is the system to slow the vehicle and mitigate the severity of an impact when a rear end collision probability is increased. To mitigate a rear end collision, the AEB comprises of a millimeter wave radar sensor, CCD camera and vehicle parameters of which are processed to judge the likelihood of a collision occurring. The main controller of the AEB algorithm is composed of the two control stage: upper and lower level controller. By using the collected obstacle information, the upper level controller of the main controller decides the control mode based not only on parametric division, but also on physical collision capability. The lower level controller determines warning level and braking level to maintain the longitudinal safety. To decide the braking level, Last Ponit To Brake and Steer (LPTB/LPTS) are compared with current driving statues. To demonstrate the control performance of the proposed AEBS algorithm's, closed-loop simulation of the AEBS was conducted by using the Matlab simlink and CarSim software.

Vehicle Recognition of ADAS Vehicle in Collision Situation with Multiple Vehicles in Single Lane (한 차선 내 복수 차량이 존재하는 추돌 상황에서의 ADAS 차량의 차량 인식에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Seohang;Park, Sanghyeop;Choi, Inseong;Jeong, Jayil
    • Journal of Auto-vehicle Safety Association
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.44-52
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    • 2019
  • In this study a safety evaluation method is presented for a ADAS vehicle to be tested in collision situation when multiple vehicles are present on a single lane. Test scenarios are developed based on Euro-NCAP assessment scenarios, accident database and related simulation results in previous works. An automated evaluation system that is called as the K-target mover is used for active safety evaluation experiments. The experiments are conducted with two types of tests. First, the rear-end collision tests with 25% and 50% overlap for the test vehicle and target vehicle are conducted with the two kinds of test vehicles. On the other hand, the rear-end collision tests which include multiple vehicles in a single lane with 25% and 50% overlaps, are also conducted. Experimental results show that the test vehicles with ADAS cannot recognize the collision situation sometimes in the developed test scenarios, even in the case that the test vehicle showed stable performance in the simple overlap scenarios.

The Study of Influence Factor of Head Restraints on the Whiplash by using DFSS (DFSS 기법을 이용한 후방 추돌 시 경부 상해 감소를 위한 머리지지대 인자의 영향성 연구)

  • Oh, Hyungjoon;Seo, Sangjin;Yoo, Hyukjin
    • Journal of Auto-vehicle Safety Association
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.5-10
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    • 2012
  • Whiplash is the most frequent injury among occupants in low speed rear-end car collision. The aim of this paper is to analyze thecorrelation between influence parameters of head restraints and whiplash injury criteria.In this paper, DFSS (Design for Six Sigma) method is used for optimum design of head restrains. Four control factors of head restraints have selected by function matrix method. The effects of the control factors have been experimentally evaluated by using a sled pulse from 16km/h relative velocity which is suggested by KNCAP (Korean New Car Assessment Program). In order to reduce the noise factors of dynamic tests, whiplash tests were repeated twice. By using DFSS, the correlation between control factors and injury criteria has been comprehended.

A Study on Development of an Active Headrest for the Passenger when Rear-end Collision (후방충돌시 승객보호를 위한 능동형 헤드레스트 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, D.W.;Kim, N.G.;Ko, Y.H.
    • Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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    • v.1996 no.05
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    • pp.327-330
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    • 1996
  • We investigated the possibility of preventing a passenger's whiplash injury by rear-end collision. We sought to prevent the whiplash injury by appling an active headrest system to a passenger A main factor in whiplash injury is the backward, rapid, passive, and negative acceleration of the head. Our results showed that the active headrest system does reduce the backward, rapid, passive, and negative acceleration of the head. As a conclusion, Our active headrest system is a useful equipment to prevent whiplash injury.

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