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Journal of Automotive Safety and Energy ›› 2023, Vol. 14 ›› Issue (4): 413-420.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8484.2023.04.002

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Effect of increasing age on injury risk in elderly male occupant

TANG Youming1,2(), XIE Xiangjian1(), SUN Guibin1, WANG Ping1, ZHANG Yi1, SUN Guanyu1   

  1. 1. Mechanical and Automotive Engineering College, Xiamen Technology University, Xiamen 361024, China
    2. School of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China
  • Received:2022-12-12 Revised:2023-05-24 Online:2023-08-31 Published:2023-08-31

Abstract:

To investigate the effect of increasing age on the injury risk of male elderly occupants, MADYMO software was used to establish multi-body dummy models combined with the human body size of Chinese 60-79 years old male elderly, based on the Hybrid Ⅲ 50-percentile male dummy. By coupling the model of occupant seat restraint system, the influence relationship between head, chest, thigh and weighted injury criteria (WIC) and age factors of male elderly occupants in 4 age groups (60-64, 65-69, 70-74 and 75-79 years old) was compared and analyzed, and a probability model of injury risk for elderly occupants with increasing age was proposed. The results showed that the HIC value of head, the integrate acceleration value, chest acceleration value and compression value, and the WIC value of comprehensive damage increase linearly with the increasing of the age of elderly occupants; When the age is over 74 years old, the chest 3 ms acceleration shows a steep index upward trend; With the increasing of age, the injury risk of male elderly occupants is significantly positively correlated with age (r > 0.97, p < 0.05).

Key words: automotive passive safety, increasing age, elderly occupant, probability model of injury risk, restraint system, model scaler

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