Using Virtual Prototyping and Rapid Prototyping to evaluate, for industrial benchmarking, Pedestrian Safety performances of the front part of a vehicle

摘要

All over the world, and mainly in United States, since 1977 to 1991 the research centers of the main automotive companies had processed several statistical data on real accidents between vehicles and pedestrians taking care, obviously, to pedestrians' injury. In latest years a research group of EEVC (European Enhanced Vehicle Safety Committee) had examined the statistic works of past twenty years and subsequent several scientific papers, and had realized some documents about "pedestrian test" procedures. In reference papers of period 1977 - 1997 and in EEVC documents, the scientists describe a proposed homologative test for child-head impact; an impact simulation of a standardized impactor on car bonnet represents it, in order to evaluate the child-head injury as deceleration of its center of gravity.