VIRTUAL ASSESSMENT OF MOTORCYCLE HELMET CONTRIBUTION TO DECREASING INJURY RISK IN IMPACT

摘要

Road traffic accidents cause one of the highest numbers of severe injuries. Virtual biomechanical human body models play an important role to assess injuries during impact loading especially for scenarios, where complex dynamical loading is taken into account. It concerns mainly vulnerable road users likea motorcycleor other two wheelerriders. The virtual biomechanical human body models can also serve for development and optimization of personal protective equipment. The motorcycle riders may use wide spectra of personal protective equipment, but thehelmet is one of the most important. The present study exploits existing scalable human body model Virthuman, couples it to helmet and assess its contribution to the injury risk decrease. The study will enable the numerical assessment of personal protective equipment such as helmet and its contribution to decreasing the injury risk.