Injury Prevention during Collisions with Trucks and Buses

摘要

The goal of this Small Business Innovation Research project is to reduce human injuries and deaths during car collisions with heavy trucks and buses. Livvon LLC is developing a bumper airbag for heavy trucks and buses that could reduce deaths and the severity of injuries from current frontal collisions by 90%. The technical question we tried to answer was: What is the best design for this bumper airbag, i.e. Airbag Length, Height, and Front Face Slant Angle. The specific objective of this Phase I research and development effort was to determine the optimum bumper airbag design based on computer simulations of the airbag in collisions and cross winds.