USE OF THE HEAD INJURY CRITERION AS A MEASURE OF VEHICLE OCCUPANT PROTECTION PERFORMANCE
For the past 20 years or so, performance requirements intended to protect motor vehicle occupants against head injury have invariably been based on the use of the Head Injury Criterion (HIC). The most evident difficulty with the Criterion is simply that the assumed inverse relationship between the tolerable level of head acceleration and its duration leads to predictions that contradict practical experiences. Extensive data from tests by Transport Canada and other agencies are presented which show that, regardless of either the time duration of the calculation or the criterion level, HIC is incapable of distinguishing potentially injurious events from those that are known to be harmless. For the protection of motor vehicle occupants in frontal collisions, the same data show that an 80 g limit on Anthropometric Test Dummy head acceleration constitute a rational, attainable and effective performance requirement. For the covering abstract of the conference see IRRD 881069.
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Corporate Authors:
IRCOBI (International Research Council on the Biokinetics of Impacts)
109 Avenue Salvador Allende
Bron CEDEX, France F-69675 -
Authors:
- WELBOURNE, E R
- Conference:
- Publication Date: 1994
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: p. 151-62
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Biophysics; Classification; Conferences; Errors; Forecasting; Frontal crashes; Head; Injuries; Prevention; Vehicle occupants
- Geographic Terms: Canada
- ITRD Terms: 2060: Biomechanics; 8018: Canada; 8513: Classification; 8525: Conference; 6440: Error; 132: Forecast; 1640: Head on collision; 2163: Injury; 9149: Prevention; 1715: Vehicle occupant
- Subject Areas: Passenger Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00726444
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
- Files: ITRD
- Created Date: Oct 28 1996 12:00AM