Investigation into the Crash worthiness of ISOFIX Child Restraints in Aircraft
The development of a numerical dynamic model for investigating the crashworthiness of automotive child restraints is presented. Civil air regulations in many countries around the world currently allow for infants to be held on the lap of an adult passenger during flight. Research has found that infants carried in this manner are at a significantly increased risk of serious injury or death in the event of an otherwise survivable crash. One solution to this issue is the use of automotive child restraints. These restraints have been shown to provide the infant with a level of safety equivalent to that of an adult passenger. Difficulties in installing the automotive restraints has prevented their widespread use in aircraft, however research has found that a new child restraint attachment method known as ISOFIX has the potential to overcome these difficulties. However, a passenger seated directly aft of an ISOFIX child restraint is potentially at increased risk of head or neck injury. Considerations regarding modeling method, model validation and foam modeling are discussed.
child restraints crashworthiness numerical modeling
Adam Shrimpton Graham Clark Cees Bil
School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, RMIT University,Melbourne, Australia School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
国际会议
2010 Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Aerospace Technology(2010 亚太航空航天技术研讨会 APISAT 2010)
西安
英文
1223-1225
2010-09-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）