Injury Criteria for Vehicle Safety Assessment: A Review with a Focus Using Human Body Models
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Head
2.1. Skull
2.2. Brain
2.3. Discussion
3. Upper Body and Ribcage
Discussion
4. Spine
Discussion
5. Internal Organs
5.1. Lungs
5.2. Heart
5.3. Spleen, Kidney, Liver, Stomach, and Intestines
5.4. Discussion
6. Lower Limbs
6.1. Knee-Thigh-Hip Complex and Knee Ligaments
6.2. Tibia and Fibula
6.3. Ankle (Pilon) and Calcaneus Complex
6.4. Discussion
7. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Skull | Cortical bone fracture | Maximum Principal Strain | 0.6% | Mattos et al. [47] |
Cortical bone fracture (50% risk) | Strain Energy | 865 mJ | Deck and Willinger [51] | |
Strain Energy (SUFHEM-based IC) | 439 mJ | Willinger et al. [32] | ||
Brain | Contusion | Intracranial Pressure (ICP) | >235 kPa | Ward et al. [52] |
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) | Intracranial Pressure (ICP) | >300 kPa | Newman et al. [53] | |
(RIC) Cumulative Strain Damage Measurement (CSDM) | <15% | Kimpara and Iwamoto [56] | ||
More severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) | (PRHIC) Cumulative Strain Damage Measurement (CSDM) | >20% | ||
Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI) 50% risk | Von Mises Strain | 25% (mild) to 35% (severe) | Deck and Willinger [51] | |
First Principal Strain | 31% (mild) to 40% (severe) | |||
Von Mises Stress | 26 kPa (mild) to 33 kPa (severe) | |||
Maximum Principal Strain (MPS) | 87% | Takhounts et al. [41] | ||
Von Mises Stress (SUFHEM-based IC) | 27 kPa | Willinger et al. [32] | ||
Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI) | Angular acceleration—duration time | 10,000 rad/s2 4 ms | Davidsson et al. [61] | |
Angular velocity change | 19 rad/s | |||
Brain White Matter contusion | Maximum Principal Strain (MPS) | 21% | Bain and Meaney [55] | |
Subdural Hematomas (SDH) (50% risk) | Minimum of Cerebrospinal Fluid Pressure (MCSFP) | −135 kPa | Deck and Willinger [51] | |
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Internal Energy (SUFHEM-based IC) | −135 kPa | Willinger et al. [32] |
Damage | Metric | Threshold | Reference | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Thorax | Chest deflection | Change in length (11 locations) | - | Bostrom et al. [65] |
Thoracic deformation | Chest bands (at 4th, 6th, and 8th rib) | - | Hayes et al. [66] | |
Contusion | Ultimate Plastic Strain (UPS) | 3%−0.8% | Poulard et al. [69] | |
Viscous Criterion (VC) max | - | Miller et al. [70] | ||
Rib fracture | First Principal Strain | 0–25% 25–50% 50–75% >75% Injury risk groups | Xiao et al. [71] | |
Local strain > UTS (rib cortical bone) | Several adjacent elements > threshold | Foreman et al. [64] | ||
Von Mises stress (stress limit before fracture) | 130 MPa | Kemper et al. [73] | ||
Cortical bone plastic failure strain | 0.89% | Golman et al. [68] | ||
Trabecular bone ultimate failure strain | 13% |
Damage | Metric | Threshold | Reference | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Lumbar Vertebrae | Fracture | Maximum Plastic Strain (MPS) | 1.5% | Gaewsky et al. [74] |
Lumbar Spine Index (LSI) | 0.6 | Ye et al. [5] | ||
Lumbar spine shear force | 373 N (x) 273 N (y) | |||
Thoracolumbar Vertebrae | Trabecular bone fracture | Strain | 1.71% |
Damage | Metric | Threshold | Reference | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Lungs | Pulmonary Contusion (PC) | Maximum Principal Strain (MPS) | 34.3% | Gaewsky et al. [74] |
35% | Han et al. [72] | |||
Nominal strain | 15% | Arun et al. [76] | ||
Heart | Contusion | Maximum strain | 30% | Shigeta et al. [4] |
Ultimate Tensile Strain (UTS) | 30% | Han et al. [72] | ||
Damage to myocardial tissue | Ultimate Tensile Strain (UTS) | 63% | ||
Spleen | Contusion | Nominal strain | 30% | Arun et al. [76] |
Kidney | Contusion | Nominal strain | 30% | |
Liver | Contusion | Nominal strain | 30% | |
Maximum Compressive Stress (MCS) | 0.127–0.192 MPa | Han et al. [72] | ||
Stomach | Contusion | Maximum strain | 1.2% | Shigeta et al. [4] |
Small and Large Intestine | Contusion | Maximum strain | 1.2% |
Damage | Metric | Threshold | Reference | |
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Knee-Thigh-Hip Complex | Fracture | Maximum force (35% risk–AIS2+) | 10 kN | Kuppa et al. [80] |
Axial femur force (50th percentile male) | 9070 N | Mertz et al. [82] | ||
Knee Ligaments | Partial tears | Relative displacement femur-tibia | 14.4 mm | Viano et al. [83] |
Complete failure | 22.6 mm | |||
Failure | Medial shear loading | 11.4–17.6 mm (average 14.3 mm) | Mo et al. [86] | |
Lateral ligament failure | Ultimate strain | 28% | Arnoux et al. [85] | |
Cruciate ligament failure | 24% | |||
Tibia and Fibula | Fracture | Tibia Index (TI) | <2 | Ye et al. [5] |
Ultimate Tensile Stress (UTS) | 134 MPa | |||
Ankle (Pilon)—Calcaneus Complex | Fracture | Average Tibia force | 7590 N | Begeman et al. [89] |
Fracture (50% risk) | 6.7 kN | Yoganandan et al. [88] | ||
Pilon fracture | 7293 N | Kitagawa et al. [82] | ||
Calcaneus fracture | 8115 N | |||
Ultimate Tensile Stress (UTS) | 175 MPa | Gaewsky et al. [74] | ||
Talus fracture |
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Germanetti, F.; Fiumarella, D.; Belingardi, G.; Scattina, A. Injury Criteria for Vehicle Safety Assessment: A Review with a Focus Using Human Body Models. Vehicles 2022, 4, 1080-1095. https://doi.org/10.3390/vehicles4040057
Germanetti F, Fiumarella D, Belingardi G, Scattina A. Injury Criteria for Vehicle Safety Assessment: A Review with a Focus Using Human Body Models. Vehicles. 2022; 4(4):1080-1095. https://doi.org/10.3390/vehicles4040057
Chicago/Turabian StyleGermanetti, Filippo, Dario Fiumarella, Giovanni Belingardi, and Alessandro Scattina. 2022. "Injury Criteria for Vehicle Safety Assessment: A Review with a Focus Using Human Body Models" Vehicles 4, no. 4: 1080-1095. https://doi.org/10.3390/vehicles4040057