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Modelling of whiplash trauma. Parametric study of rear-end impacts using FEM sn CFD
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Autor/a:
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Oliver González, Andreu
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Altres autors:
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Nilsson, Hakan |
Abstract:
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This work is a combination of Finite Element (FE) modelling and Computational
Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to investigate the effect of acceleration pulses, head restraint
and seating posture on facet joint loads and pressure transient magnitudes on the neck
injury outcome during whiplash motion.
A parametric study is carried out with the FE human body model THUMS (Total
HUman Model for Safety) for a variety of crash pulses and crash conditions that have
a known relative risk of long term neck injuries in rear-end impacts. The injury
criterion NIC (Neck Injury Criteria) is addressed for the studies made.
The THUMS model is used to generate the motion data of the spinal canal, which is
used as an input to simulate the behaviour of the spinal canal to analyse the pressure
transients in the network of blood vessels during the whiplash motion performing
CFD simulations using the OpenFOAM CFD toolbox. Using the output of FE
simulations, a moving mesh technique is used to achieve the motion of the mesh
points in the CFD simulations.
The results give an insight into proposed injury mechanisms and injury risk
assessment criteria concerning long term neck injuries. The effect of head restraint
and its position with respect to the driver’s head in mitigating the above injuries is
discussed for different crash scenarios. |
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Matèries:
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-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Ciències de la salut::Medicina::Anatomia i fisiologia humana -Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Anàlisi numèrica::Mètodes en elements finits -Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Anàlisi numèrica::Modelització matemàtica -Whiplash injuries -- Mathematical models -Computational fluid dynamics -Neck Injuries -Whiplash Trauma -FEM -CFD -THUMS -NIC -Facet Joint Strains and Injury Mechanism -Fuetades cervicals -- Models matemàtics -Dinàmica de fluids -- Simulació per ordinador |
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Tipus de document:
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Projecte/Treball fi de carrera o de grau |
Publicat per:
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya; Chalmers Tekniska Högskola
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