Head injury mitigation of an adult and child pedestrian in a frontal vehicle impact using response surface methodology

• Main Authors: Venkatason, Kausalyah, Shasthri, Sevaguru, Abdullah, Kassim Abdulrahman, Idres, Moumen, Shah, Qasim Hussain, Wong, Sha Voon
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Trans Tech Publications Ltd., Switzerland 2014
• Subjects: TL1 Motor vehicles
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/40901/1/K_CMAME_AMM.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/40901/4/40901_head%20injury%20mitigation_scopus.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/40901/; http://www.ttp.net/1660-9336.html

This work aims at achieving an optimized vehicle front-end profile for improved protection for both adult and child pedestrian groups. A seven parameter simplified vehicle front end model is used in which the Central Composite Design(CCD) is utilized to generate a Plan of Experiments for the adul...