ADRIA - Advanced Crash Dummy Research for Injury Assessment in Frontal Test Conditions
Overview
Background & policy context:
European regulations regarding the protection of car occupants are regularly revised and updated to mirror the latest biomechanical knowledge. However, assessment of the actual performance of vehicles in terms of protection against frontal impacts is still undertaken using crash test dummies dating back to the seventies. Those frontal crash dummies developed in the US face a couple of limitations for injury assessment, so adapting newly developed crash test dummies for standard test procedures is necessary.
Objectives:
ADRIA aimed to reduce casualties in the EC among vehicle occupants in the most hazardous accident type, i.e. frontal collisions. This objective was related to a European regulation for the protection of car occupants in frontal impacts that was to become effective during 1998.
The main objectives of ADRIA have been:
- to recommend a design of a biofidelic crash dummy face, enabling facial injury assessment in frontal collisions;
- to evaluate the current Head Injury Criterion (HIC) in view of new computer simulation technologies for brain injury mechanisms;
- to assess the suitability of a new frontal crash dummy developed in the US (THOR) for application under European conditions;
- to assess the suitability of new lower leg dummy components;
- to develop recommendations for new injury tolerance levels under European conditions.
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