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Biomechanics Parameters in the Vehicle-Cyclist Crash with Accident Analysis in Palermo

Filippo CarolloGabriele Virzi' MariottiEdoardo Scalici

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teenage bicyclistSettore ING-IND/14 - Progettazione Meccanica E Costruzione Di MacchineSettore MED/43 - Medicina Legalevehicle impact3ms criterionAccidentologyHICAccidentology teenage bicyclist vehicle impact severe (AIS4+) injury HIC 3ms criterionsevere (AIS4+) injury

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The vehicle-bicyclist impact is studied in this paper. After analysis of the accidents in Palermo in the last years, the multibody simulation of the crash is executed by making use of Visual Nastran. Dummy, car and bicycle are those used in previous works. The attention is on a teenage cyclist, because the data on this argument are found in literature with difficulty. The impact is simulated at four different speeds until 50 km/h, with three different positions of the cyclist relative to the vehicle: frontal, side and rear. In particular the injury of the head is analyzed using the parameter HIC and the chest injury is analyzed by 3 ms criterion; the likelihood AIS 4+ is calculated, concluding that head injury is more dangerous in the case of teenage pedestrian, while chest injury is more dangerous in the case of the cyclist.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2014-01-01
http://hdl.handle.net/11573/927703