Risk and injury severity of obese child passengers in motor vehicle crashes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the risk and injury severity on the regional body (head, neck, and chest) of obese children in frontal motor vehicle crashes (MVCs).

Methods

No physical surrogates (i.e., crash dummies) for obese children were available, and experiments on pediatric cadavers were generally not feasible. Therefore, computational models of obese children using medical imaging processing and state-of-the-art modeling techniques were developed. A hybrid modeling technique was used to integrate the finite element model for torso fat layer into the standard multibody model to represent various levels of obese children for 3- and 6-year-old age groups. The models were used to investigate injury severity under various crash scenarios through model simulations.

Results

SUBMITTER: Kim JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4340813 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature