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S. Niedermeyer, H. Bachem (CDH) In the automotive industry since some years more and more numerical tools for optimization are used to find optimized solutions for the highly nonlinear problems in the area of pedestrian safety. But ...

C. Olschinka (HAW Hamburg) The approval of aircraft seats for air traffic strongly depends upon the seat structures’ performance under emergency landing conditions. In the progress of seat certification the legislator demands the ...

S. Oberer (Fraunhofer IPA) New technologies and processes enhance the need for direct human robot interaction, to fully exploit the potential of robots’ accuracy and humans’ adaptability. Therefore, the hazardous potential of the ...

Whiplash injuries may occur in low speed rear crashes. Many consumer and insurance organizations use the BioRID-II dummy as test device, to assess the risk of whiplash injuries in car accidents. An LS-DYNA model of the BioRID-II dummy ...

H.H. Spit, J. van Hoof (TASS) This paper gives an insight in the latest developments of the MADYMO Dummy Database. Special attention will be paid to new facet Quality Rated dummy models. These models are perfectly suitable to be used ...

B. Keding, S. Stahlschmid, U. Franz (DYNAmore)

C. Ruff (Kompetenzzentrum - Das virtuelle Fahrzeug (vif)) The common used “Uniform Pressure Method” (UP) is a well-tried method to simulate an airbag deployment in accident cases. Nevertheless, this method indicates rather heavy ...

R. Sturt, C. Bell (Arup) There is constant pressure to reduce the time needed to process design data into crash results (mesh, assemble, create different crash cases, check, run, post-process). The meshing step has been reduced by ...

Y. Liu, F. Zhu, J. Rasico, M. van Ratingen (FTSS, Inc.)

J. He (Engineering Technology Associates)