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Area of Science:

  • Biomechanics
  • Occupant Safety
  • Automotive Engineering

Background:

  • Existing sled tests for pelvis behavior and submarining often use rigid or commercial seats, limiting realistic simulation.
  • There is a need for repeatable and reproducible sled test setups that mimic real-world automotive seat behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and utilize a novel semi-rigid seat for sled tests to assess occupant submarining.
  • To generate reference data for evaluating the biofidelity of human surrogates in submarining and non-submarining scenarios.
  • To investigate pelvis behavior and injury patterns in different seat configurations.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a reproducible semi-rigid seat using plates and springs, suitable for Finite Element (FE) modeling.
  • Conducting eight sled tests using Post Mortem Human Subjects (PMHS) in front (anti-submarining) and rear (pro-submarining) seat configurations.
  • Constructing corridors for external forces and PMHS kinematics to serve as new biofidelity assessment references.

Main Results:

  • Front seat configuration: No submarining or pelvis fractures observed; however, two subjects sustained lumbar vertebrae fractures.
  • Rear seat configuration: All subjects experienced pelvic fractures and demonstrated submarining.
  • Extensive rib fractures were consistently observed across all subjects due to shoulder belt loading.

Conclusions:

  • The developed semi-rigid seat effectively differentiates between submarining and non-submarining scenarios, providing valuable data for dummy assessment.
  • The study establishes new reference corridors for evaluating human surrogate biofidelity in critical crash configurations.
  • Future work will focus on analyzing additional seat and restraint systems to develop a submarining predictor.