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A Study on Characteristics of Passenger Injury for Effective Impact Speed in Vehicles Frontal Collision and Rear-ender

차량 정면충돌 및 추돌시 유효충돌속도에 따른 탑승자 상해특성에 관한 연구

  • 조정권 (가천대학교 대학원 기계공학과) ;
  • 윤준규 (가천대학교 기계공학과) ;
  • 임종한 (가천대학교 기계공학과)
  • Received : 2015.06.18
  • Accepted : 2015.08.07
  • Published : 2015.08.31
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Abstract

Recently, various research studies on frontal collision and rear-ender which occur more frequently compared to others are underway as the public interest on them is growing. This study analyzes scientifically the relationship between effective impact speed and injury incidence for vehicle crash accident reconstruction and presents a relevant model formula. Because real vehicle experiments have certain limitations such as possible injuries, this study efforts to collect and analyze as many materials as possible to substitute real vehicle experiments, including data from various collision tests and human experiments. As a result, this study present a threshold in which head-on collisions and rear impacts do not cause injuries under 7 km/h of effective impact speed, and suggests a model formula showing that injury extent is linearly proportional to effective impact speed through collision speed and amount of plastic deformation. In conclusion, a model formula for estimating effective impact speed and injury incidence newly proposed in this study is expected to be used as a minimum standard of judgment in disputes on the injury extent of passenger in head-on collisions and rear impacts. Furthermore its availability in terms of technological analysis in legal arguments is expected to be very high if this study will be enhanced by referring to scientific analyses of various real accidents so as to apply it in various types of collision accidents.

최근에 자동차 사고발생 빈도수가 높은 정면충돌사고와 추돌사고에 대해 사회적 관심도 높아지면서 다양한 연구들이 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 자동차 충돌사고에서 재구성을 위한 유효충돌속도와 인체상해발생정도의 관계를 과학적으로 분석하여 관련 모형식을 제시하였으며, 인체상해가 가능한 자동차 실차실험의 한계가 명확하므로 이를 대신하여 각종 충돌실험자료와 인체실험자료 등을 심층 분석하고자 하였다. 그 결과로 정면 및 추돌사고의 경우에는 유효 충돌속도가 7 km/h 이하에서는 상해가 발생하지 않는 임계치를 나타냈으며, 충돌속도와 소성변형량 정도를 통해 상해정도가 유효충돌속도에 선형적으로 비례하는 모형식을 제시하였다. 따라서 본 연구를 통하여 새롭게 제시된 유효충돌속도와 상해발생정도의 추정모형은 사고재구성에서 최소한의 공학적 판단기준으로 활용 가능하여 법적 분쟁시 유익한 정보를 제공할 것으로 사료된다.

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