Overview
The main goal of CHILD is to improve the child safety in road accidents. CHILD will enable the investigation of injury mechanisms and tolerances for different ages of children and to establish injury criteria and risk curves.
CHILD aims to increase the knowledge in areas specifically regarding children, and use the information in applications of child restraint systems design, testing and regulation.
The CHILD project uses as a basis the research undertaken in the CREST project (SMT4-CT95-2019). The proposal addresses many issues that are researched in other EC projects in relation to adult vehicle occupants, such as biomechanics, injury tolerance, human and dummy modelling and simulation, but which give no consideration to children. The main objective of this proposal is therefore to increase our level of knowledge in these areas specifically regarding children. In addition CHILD seeks to compliment the activities of Euro NCAP with regard to child occupant protection assessment, in order to establish PRVs (protection reference values) for body regions such as the neck.
