• 한국기계기술학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.49-56
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• 2011

The neck injury occupies the most of injury that happened by the rear impact car accident. This study was analyzed about influence of the neck injury in low speed rear impact and car crash accident investigation. There is no neck injury in low speed side rear impact. On the other hand, there is initial neck injury symptom of 10 % but no long-term neck injury symptom in low speed offset rear impact. It appeared that the possibility of neck injury in low speed rear impact is low. For the more study about the neck injury, it should be evaluate the effects of the car body structure, frame structure and rear crash pattern.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.135-142
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• 2007

MADYMO human model with the detail neck was used to investigate the reaction force of neck and neck injury from rear impact directions. In the validation simulation, head acceleration, thorax acceleration and the global kinematics of the head and neck were correlated well with experimental data. Acceleration data from three 15 km/h low speed car rear impact pendulum tests(rear-end, offset, oblique) were used to simulate the model. In the simulation results, the reaction force on the facet joint and discs in the oblique rear impact were higher than rear-end, offset rear impacts. Further research is still needed in order to neck injury analysis about different crash parameters.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.913-920
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• 2005

Compared to previous in-vitro test, FE model showed reliable motion patterns. A finite element model of a 50th percentile male neck was developed to study the mechanics of whiplash injury while the rear impacts. The model was consisted of the whole cervical vertebrae including part of occipital, intervertebral discs. which were modeled using linear viscoelastic materials and posterior elements. The sliding interfaces were defined to simulate contact phenomena in facet joints and in odontoid process. All ligaments and atlanto-occipital membrane were modeled as nonlinear bar elements. Only muscle elements were not considered. Motion of each cervical vertebra was obtained from the dynamic simulation with a MADYMO model for 15 km/h $40\%$ rear end offset impacts. Soft tissue neck injury(STNI) was investigated with a developed FE model. In FE model analysis, the high stress was appeared at C3/C4 disc in offset impact. Further research is still needed in order to improve the developed neck FE model for many different crash patterns.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.134-139
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• 2003

The car crash accidents in low speed occurs most frequently. Damage on a conventional bumper after the car accident causes the bumper to get fixed most of time. This study shows how a gas tube bumper reduces a damageability and increase repairability after the car accidents. The 15 km/h 40% offset front and rear crash test recommended by RCAR (Research council for automobile repairs) standard was performed and evaluated damages on the gas tube bumper by the pendulum impact tester. In this study, the gas tube bumper reduces damageability and increases repairability after car crash accidents. In addition, car frame design to apply the gas tube bumper may consider to be changed.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2010

본 연구의 목적은 저속충돌에서 승용차량의 범퍼체결구조를 분석하기 위한 것이다. 차량의 손상성-수리성 향상 연구를 위해 범퍼체결구조가 서로 상이한 3개 차종에 대해 RCAR(세계자동차 수리기술위원회)의 저속충돌시험(전,후면 40% 오프셋 충돌시험) 기준을 적용하였다. 시험결과 충격흡수능력은 직사각형 단면형상을 가지고 그 부분이 범퍼레일에 삽입되는 크래시박스식의 범퍼스테이가 대부분의 차량에 적용되고 있는 다른 두 유형의 범퍼체결구조에 비해 우수하게 나타났다. 우수하게 설계된 직사각형 단면형상을 가지는 범퍼체결구조가 저속충돌사고 시 차량의 손상성-수리성을 향상시킴으로써 승객의 안전성도 강화시킬뿐만 아니라 수리비 절감에도 기여할 수 있다는 것이 본 연구에서 입증되었다.