ADVANCES IN EUROPEAN PASSIVE SAFETY RESEARCH: THE APROSYS PROJECT

摘要

Secondary (or passive) safety constitutes one of the most important strategies to reduce the traffic trauma problem. The European R&D needs in this field are partially dealt with in a large European co-operative R&D project called APROSYS (Advanced Protection Systems) supported by the European Commission. The general objective of APROSYS is the development and introduction of critical technologies that improve passive safety for all European road users in all relevant accident types and accident severity's. The most important objectives/outputs are (1) development of new injury criteria and injury tolerance, (2) development of new mathematical models of the human body (crash & pre-crash phase, arbitrary body sizes), (3) development of a new world-wide harmonized crash dummy for representation of a small female car occupant (side impact), (4) development of knowledge and tools enabling the design, implementation and evaluation of intelligent safety systems, (5) enhancement of virtual testing technology for design and evaluation of crash protection methods and (6) development of test methods and advanced protection systems for injury reduction in most relevant accident types involving car occupants, motorcyclists, pedestrians and cyclist. The APROSYS project has 50 partners including a number of OEM's and started in April 2004. The total duration of APROSYS is 5 years. An important aspect in APROSYS is the integrated approach with primary (or active) safety, the so-called area of integrated safety. In this presentation an overview of the project will be presented as well as some of the main achievements of APROSYS in particular concerning lateral impacts.