Dynamic human body models in vehicle safety: An overview

N Fahse, M Millard, F Kempter, S Maier… - GAMM …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Significant trends in the vehicle industry are autonomous driving, micromobility,
electrification and the increased use of shared mobility solutions. These new vehicle …

Modeling of active skeletal muscles: a 3D continuum approach incorporating multiple muscle interactions

W Zeng, DR Hume, Y Lu, CK Fitzpatrick… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Skeletal muscles have a highly organized hierarchical structure, whose main function is to
generate forces for movement and stability. To understand the complex heterogeneous …

The inclusion of hyoid muscles improve moment generating capacity and dynamic simulations in musculoskeletal models of the head and neck

JD Mortensen, AN Vasavada, AS Merryweather - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
OpenSim musculoskeletal models of the head and neck can provide information about
muscle activity and the response of the head and neck to a variety of situations. Previous …

[PDF][PDF] The VIVA OpenHBM finite element 50th percentile female occupant model: whole body model development and kinematic validation

J Östh, M Mendoza-Vazquez, A Linder… - IRCOBI …, 2017 - publications.lib.chalmers.se
Recently, significant progress has been made in the development of Finite Element Human
Body Models, and they have been introduced in the development of automotive safety …

Development and verification of a physiologically motivated internal controller for the open-source extended Hill-type muscle model in LS-DYNA

OV Martynenko, F Kempter, C Kleinbach… - … and Modeling in …, 2023 - Springer
Nowadays, active human body models are becoming essential tools for the development of
integrated occupant safety systems. However, their broad application in industry and …

Variations in user implementation of the CORA rating metric

DL Albert - 2021 - sae.org
The CORA rating metric is frequently used in the field of injury biomechanics to compare the
similarity of response time histories. However, subjectivity exists within the CORA metric in …

Comparison of control strategies for the cervical muscles of an average female head-neck finite element model

IPA Putra, J Iraeus, R Thomson… - Traffic injury …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Objective: ViVA OpenHBM is the first open source Human Body Model (HBM) for
crash safety assessment. It represents an average size (50th percentile) female and was …

[PDF][PDF] Modelling reflex recruitment of neck muscles in a finite element human body model for simulating omnidirectional head kinematics

JM Ólafsdóttir, J Östh, K Brolin - … proceedings-international research …, 2019 - academia.edu
Numerical human body models that can predict occupant head and neck responses are
essential for the development and ass Page 1 Abstract Numerical human body models that can …

Implementation and validation of the extended Hill-type muscle model with robust routing capabilities in LS-DYNA for active human body models

C Kleinbach, O Martynenko, J Promies… - Biomedical engineering …, 2017 - Springer
Background In the state of the art finite element AHBMs for car crash analysis in the LS-
DYNA software material named* MAT_MUSCLE (* MAT_156) is used for active muscles …

Importance of passive muscle, skin, and adipose tissue mechanical properties on head and neck response in rear impacts assessed with a finite element model

D Gierczycka, A Rycman, D Cronin - Traffic injury prevention, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Objective The objective of this study was to improve head-neck kinematic predictions of a
contemporary finite element (FE) head-neck model, assessed in rear impact scenarios (3 …