Study of the Behavior of Dummy Hybrid III Upper Extremities

Studies of crash simulations resulted in the assumption that an interaction of the upper occupant extremities with the vehicle interior has effects on the occupant loadings, e.g. the chest acceleration. Quantifying this effect requires a dummy model also valid for the area of upper extremities. A suitable test procedure shall help to identify possible force paths via the arms into the dummy torso and, as a result, to evaluate the resulting dummy loadings. This test procedure will be transferred into a virtual model and compared with the results gained in physical testing. The final analysis shows the potential and the limits of the modular FTSS dummy for the quantitative evaluation of interactions between the upper extremities and the vehicle interior.