Ongoing efforts on scalable child models, associated tools and procedures in the PIPER project

Philippe Beillas (1) , Chiara Giordano (2) , Victor Alvarez (2) , Jérôme Collot (1) , Stefan Kirscht (3) , Svein Kleiven (4)

1 LBMC UMR T9406 - Laboratoire de Biomécanique et Mécanique des Chocs
2 Neuronic Engineering, School of Technology and Health
3 Department of Automotive Engineering
4 Neuronic Engineering, School of Technology and Health,

In Europe, different Child Restraint Systems architectures can be used to restrain older children. The specificities of the child biomechanical response during the interaction with these systems are however largely unknown and much remains to be done for the safety of children in cars. Human body models (HBMs) have the potential to describe the diversity of children both in terms of anthropometry and biomechanical development. This paper describes some of current challenges and ongoing progresses towards the development of a family of HBMs continuously scalable in the range 1.5 to 6 years-old. Significant updates of the models are ongoing to prepare them for various safety applications. These include a better description of the deformability of key anatomical structures to help improve the response in frontal impact and side impact. The updates also open the possibility of future investigations of injury mechanisms.

Mots clés: BIOMECANIQUE; ENFANT

Domaines: Biomécanique [physics.med-ph]

Philippe Beillas, Chiara Giordano, Victor Alvarez, Jérôme Collot, Stefan Kirscht, et al.. Ongoing efforts on scalable child models, associated tools and procedures in the PIPER project. 13th International Conference on the Protection of Children in Cars, Dec 2015, MUNICH, Germany. 17 p. ⟨hal-01720404⟩