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http://dx.doi.org/10.3795/KSME-A.2005.29.11.1518

The Safety Assessment of Wheelchair Occupants in Road Passenger Vehicles with the Frontal Crash: a Computer Simulation  

Lee, Young-Shin (충남대학교 기계설계공학과)
Lee, Ki-Du (충남대학교 대학원 기계설계공학과)
Lim, Hyun Kyoon (한국표준과학연구원 생체자기계측센터)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A / v.29, no.11, 2005 , pp. 1518-1526 More about this Journal
Abstract
With increasing need of transportation services for people with disabilities and the aged, wheelchairs are used as their assistive devices to participate in daily and recreational activities and as seats of motor vehicle. However, as wheelchairs are primarily designed fer mobility assistive devices, not for vehicle seats, wheelchair users may experience serious injury when they meet car crashes. To date, neither engineering guidance for a wheelchair mounting system on the vehicle floor nor safety assessment analysis by a car crash has been studied for the domestic users. In this paper, in accordance with the ANSVRESNA WC-19, a fixed vehicle mounted wheelchair occupant restraint system (FWORS), wheelchair integrated restraint system (WIRS), and wheelchair integrated x-bend restraint system (WIXRS) subjected to frontal impact (20 g, 48 U) were analyzed using compute. simulations for domestic users. We present surrogate wheelchair occupant safety by head injury criteria (HIC), motion criteria (MC), and combined injury criteria (CIC).
Keywords
Frontal Crash; Injury Criteria; Wheelchair Restraint;
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