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Journal of Automotive Safety and Energy ›› 2023, Vol. 14 ›› Issue (5): 544-554.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8484.2023.05.003

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Characteristics on the active response of driver's hand on the human injury in vehicle crashes

YANG Xin1,4(), QIN Haoyi1,3, MA Shuai2,3,*, SONG Jiafeng2,3,5,6, ZHU Yong3, WANG Ruixiang1,3, XU Shucai2,3,*()   

  1. 1. College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071001, China
    2. State Key Laboratory of Automotive Safety and Energy, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
    3. Tsinghua University Suzhou Automobile Research Institute, Suzhou 215134, China
    4. Technology Innovation Center of Intelligent Agricultural Equipment, Baoding 071001, China
    5. The Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering (Ministry of Education), Jilin University, Changchun130022, China
    6. Key Laboratory of Transportation Industry for Transport Vehicle Detection, Diagnosis and Maintenance Technology, Jinan 250357, China
  • Received:2023-04-02 Revised:2023-06-19 Online:2023-10-31 Published:2023-10-31

Abstract:

The active response of the driver's hand on the steering wheel in a vehicle crash environment and the effect on human injury were investigated to provide reference data for the improvement of human injury standards and the design of vehicle safety protection. The hand structure of the dummy was reconstructed so that the hand had the ability to grasp. Using the joint constraint moment to simulate the gripping force, researchers set up the simulation model of the hand with gripping force and different positions of the steering wheel, and calculated the damage values of each part of the dummy, and compared them with the damage of the standard dummy. The results show that in the gripping condition, the peak value of head injury criterion (HIC) increases by 37.5%, the maximum value of neck extension moment decreases by 22.3%, the maximum value of chest compression decreases by 3%, and the peak value of thigh compression force decreases by 36.5%. Dividing the steering wheel into positional azimuths of the dial, the peak head HIC is greatest when the hand position is in the 11 o'clock and 4 o'clock azimuth, and the peak chest compression and thigh compression forces are greatest when the hand position is in the 8 o'clock and 4 o'clock azimuth. The active response of the driver's hand in a collision is a major influence on human damage.

Key words: car collisions, Chinese physical dummies, active response of driver's hand, human injury, head injury criterion (HIC), chest compression, thigh compression force

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