Translational medical bioengineering research of traumatic brain injury among Chinese and American pedestrians caused by vehicle collision based on human body finite element modeling
Lingbo Yan, Chenyu Liu, Xiaoming Zhu, Dayong Zhou, Xiaojiang Lv, Xuyuan Kuang · 2024
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Lingbo Yan and co-authors build a Chinese body model to test how vehicle crashes injure pedestrians' brains, in a study whose head dates it to 2023. Safety ratings lean on a standard American male crash model, but Chinese bodies differ in size and proportion. Using interpolation from measured averages, the team created a Chinese fiftieth-percentile digital body and verified its realism.
They then crashed sedan, SUV, and multipurpose vehicle models into both bodies and compared timing, impact points, speeds, and angles. The Chinese model fared worse: skull damage was more severe with the sedan, and brain damage worse with sedan and SUV. The authors argue current Chinese pedestrian-protection rules, built on foreign body data, may under-protect Chinese pedestrians. They call for rules grounded in local bodies and injury mechanics.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Lingbo Yan, Chenyu Liu, Xiaoming Zhu, Dayong Zhou, Xiaojiang Lv, Xuyuan Kuang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |