Numerical investigation of vehicle occupant injury risks in underbody blast events

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Abstract Landmines and improvised explosive devices have caused many casualties in recent conflicts. A model including the occupant, the vehicle and the explosion flow field was developed to analyze occupant injuries resulting from underbody blast. The fluid-structure coupling algorithm of LS-DYNA was used to simulate the blast effect on the vehicle hull, the transmission path of the blast load and the occupant kinematic response. Head, spine, pelvis and lower extremity injury risks were investigated for 6 kg and 8 kg TNT explosion cases using a finite element human body model. The simulations show that for belted occupants, the ankle-foot complex, tibia and fibula have the highest risk of injury, followed by the pelvis and thoracolumbar spine. These results can be used to design vehicle protection systems to improve occupant safety.

Keywords automotive safety injury biomechanics underbody blast lower extremity finite element human body model

Issue Date: 31 August 2020

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	WANG Bo
	HE Yangyang
	NIE Bingbing
	XU Shucai
	ZHANG Jinhuan

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WANG Bo,HE Yangyang,NIE Bingbing, et al. Numerical investigation of vehicle occupant injury risks in underbody blast events[J]. Journal of Tsinghua University(Science and Technology), 2020, 60(11): 902-909.

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