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Human model for safety
Start date:1997-12-01
End date:2000-11-30
Project Acronym:HUMOS
Project status:Completed
Coordinator
| Organization name:GIE PSA Peugeot Citroën | |
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Direction des Etudes et Techniques Automobiles Laboratory of Accidentology and Biomechanics 132,Rue des Suisses 92000 Nanterre FRANCE Region:ÎLE DE FRANCE Ile de France Hauts-de-Seine |
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Description
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Objectives and content
During the last three decades, car manufacturers, their
suppliers, users organisation and legislative authorities
have manifested significant progress in the field of
passenger safety. Nevertheless, a great amount of
innovative and complementary work remains to be done yet
in order to reduce both number and the consequences of
certain critical injuries.
Car designers currently use anthropometric crash dummies
which are limited in their biofidelity and in their
application type (frontal, lateral). As a consequence,
they reflect important shortcomings with respect to a
real crash situation.
Increasing computational capabilities have allowed
designers to efficiently integrate simulation techniques
into the conception cycle of their prototypes. This is
also true for numerical dummy models, nowadays fully
integrated into the crash simulation procedures.
Unfortunately these models inherit the deficiencies of
their mechanical counterparts (e.q. biofidelity).
The next stage of the simulation obviously concerns the
modelling of an occupant, more representative of the
human body, which would provide a better understanding
and predictive capacities of the injury risks. This
would be beneficial both to passengers and pedestrians.
The development of such a model requires a deep knowledge
of the human body geometry, of its constitutive materials
and an experimental database needed for validation
purposes. Some comparable data may be found already in
the literature although their utility is limited due to
the non-homogeneity of the experimentation. It is also
the intention of this project to acquire and complement
the existing data.
The current project has three main objectives:
prepare human body models and utilities for the design
office use and consequently contribute to the security
aspects of road transport. Such analysis capabilities
would also be beneficial to the reduction of the accident
cost for the environment. It should be noted that other
transport types (aeronautic, railway) and other design
concepts such as ergonomics and comfort, which do not
necessary involve safety, may also benefit from to the
outcome of this project.
integrate the human dispersion issues (in terms of
geometry, behaviour, tolerance) in the design cycle.
accommodate within the framework of a European joint
project, the mutual concerns (production, prevention,
regulation) of the European community expressed in terms
of a reliable mathematical tool which can replace the
PMHS (Post Mortem Human Subject).
The consortium is mainly composed of car manufacturers
and their suppliers (whose prime concerns involve
passenger safety matters), research and educational
institutes whose activities are relevant to this project
(medical, PMHS tests, constitutive modelling, etc ...)
and finite elements code developers (namely crash codes)
whose products are currently used for crash simulation by
the major European car manufacturers. This project is
being registered as a EUCAR project.
Project Details
Start date:1997-12-01
End date:2000-11-30
Duration:36 months
Project Reference:BRPR970475
Project cost:
Project Funding:
Programme Acronym:
FP4-BRITE/EURAM 3
Programme type:Fourth Framework Programme
Subprogramme Area:Transports
Contract type:Cost-sharing contracts
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Subject index:Transport, Electronics, Microelectronics, Industrial Manufacture
Results for this Project
Other participants
| Organization name:National Technical University of Athens | |
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Name:Marc |
Department of Engineering Science Section of Mechanics 5,Heroon Polytechniou 15780 Athens HELLAS Region:ATTIKI |
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| Organization name:Equipements et Composants pour l'Industrie Automobile | |
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Name:Dimitrios |
Direction de l'Innovation et de la Technologie BP 79 88,Rue de Seloncourt 25402 Audincourt FRANCE Region:EST FRANCHE-COMTÉ Doubs |
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| Organization name:Engineering System International SA | |
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Name:Maryvonne |
Mécanique Appliquée 20,Rue Saarinen, SILIC 270 94578 Rungis FRANCE Region:ÎLE DE FRANCE Ile de France Val-de-Marne |
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| Organization name:Institut National de Recherche sur le Transport et la Sécurité | |
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Name:Jan G.M. |
Laboratoire de Biomécanique et de Sécurité des Usagers 109,Avenue Salvador Allende 69675 Bron FRANCE Region:CENTRE-EST RHÔNE-ALPES Rhône |
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| Organization name:REGIENOV - RENAULT RECHERCHE ET INNOVATION | |
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Name:Merete |
DIRECTION DE LA RECHERCHE 9,avenue du Golf 1 78288 GUYANCOURT FRANCE Region:ÎLE DE FRANCE Ile de France Yvelines |
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| Organization name:Europe Research Management SA | |
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Name:Philippe |
22,Rue G. Eiffel 78306 Poissy FRANCE Region:ÎLE DE FRANCE Ile de France Yvelines |
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| Organization name:Volkswagen AG | |
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Name:Hans |
Fahrzeug Forschung K-EFF Kst. 1777 38436 Wolfsburg DEUTSCHLAND Region:NIEDERSACHSEN BRAUNSCHWEIG Wolfsburg, Kreisfreie Stadt |
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| Organization name:NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR APPLIED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH - TNO | |
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Name:Vassilios A. |
TNO AUTOMOTIVE CRASH SAFETY RESEARCH CENTRE P.B. 6031 97,Schoenmakerstraat 97 2600 JA DELFT NEDERLAND Region:WEST-NEDERLAND ZUID-HOLLAND Delft en Westland |
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| Organization name:Bertrand Faure Equipement SA | |
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Name:Per |
276,Rue Louis Blériol 92641 Boulogne FRANCE Region:ÎLE DE FRANCE Ile de France Hauts-de-Seine |
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| Organization name:AB Volvo Technological Development | |
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Name:Oskar |
Volvo Car Corporation Department 98270 / PV4A2 - AB Volvo Product and Process Development 405 08 Gøteborg SVERIGE Region: |
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| Organization name:Chalmers University of Technology AB | |
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Name:Laurent |
Department of Injury Prevention 1,Fysikgaarden 412 96 Göteborg SVERIGE Region:SVERIGE Vastsverige Västra Götalands län |
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| Organization name:BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke AG | |
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Name:Dirk |
Forschungs- und Ingenieurzentrum Fahrzeugsicherheit 147,Knorrstrasse 80788 München DEUTSCHLAND Region:BAYERN OBERBAYERN München, Kreisfreie Stadt |
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| Organization name:I S A M Industrielle Software für angewandte Mechanik Gesellschaft mbH | |
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Name:Haug |
12,Bahnstrasse 65205 Wiesbaden DEUTSCHLAND Region:HESSEN DARMSTADT Wiesbaden, Kreisfreie Stadt |
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| Organization name:RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG | |
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Name:Jean |
INSTITUT FUER RECHTSMEDIZIN - MEDIZINISCHE FAKULTAET SECTION EXPERIMENTAL BIOMECHANICS PF 10 57 60 2,Voss-Strasse 2 69115 HEIDELBERG DEUTSCHLAND Region:BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG KARLSRUHE Heidelberg, Stadtkreis |
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| Organization name:Université de la Méditerranée Aix-Marseille II | |
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Laboratoire de Biomécanique Appliquée 58,Boulevard Pierre Dramard 13916 Marseille FRANCE Region:MÉDITERRANÉE PROVENCE-ALPES-CÔTE D'AZUR Bouches-du-Rhône |
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Record control number:38788
