휴먼모델을 이용한 EURO-NCAP 상부다리모형 평가시험 방법에 대한 분석

Abstract

The current statistics on car-to-pedestrian accidents show a very high mortality rate compared to the frequency of occurrence. To improve the pedestrian protection performance of vehicles, governments and insurance companies tend to establish and implement new safety standards for pedestrian protection. The South Korean government added a “pedestrian safety” entry from the year 2007. The pedestrian protection performance of vehicles has gradually improved since then but is still insufficient. Therefore, various studies on pedestrian protection should be carried out. In this study, a car-to-pedestrian accident was simulated with THUMS(Total Human Model for Safety) to conduct the upper-leg form test of the Euro-NCAP(European New Car Assessment Program) protocol. The pedestrian human model and the TRL(Transport Research Laboratory) upper-leg form model were employed, and the results are presented and discussed in this paper.