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The effect of including a fetus in the uterus model on the risk of fetus mortality through drop test and frontal crash simulations

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posted on 2016-06-27, 12:28 authored by Serpil Acar, M. Meric, Memis Acar
© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group Computational modelling is an effective way of estimating the risk of injuries and fatalities in road traffic accidents. Computational pregnant occupant modelling has an additional important role in the investigation of the risk of fetus mortality in crash test simulations. In this paper, the effect of including the fetus in the uterus of the pregnant occupant model is investigated. First, isolated drop test simulations with the uterus of the computational pregnant occupant model, ‘Expecting’, with and without a fetus are used to show the effect of the presence of fetus in the uterus model. Then ‘Expecting’ with and without the fetus is used with varying levels of restraint system use, such as fully restrained, ‘seatbelt only’, ‘airbag only’ and ‘no restraint’, in frontal crash simulations, representing five levels of impacts. Maximum strains developed in the uteroplacental interface with and without a fetus are compared in every case. Both simulations predict higher risks of placental abruption when the fetus is included in the model. Simulations with and without a fetus model show that inclusion of a 38-week fetus model causes higher strains in the placental region of uterus.

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

International Journal of Crashworthiness

Volume

21

Issue

5

Pages

452-459

Citation

ACAR, B.S., MERIC, M. and ACAR, M., 2016. The effect of including a fetus in the uterus model on the risk of fetus mortality through drop test and frontal crash simulations. International Journal of Crashworthiness, 21 (5), pp. 452-459.

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© Taylor & Francis

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2016-02-09

Publication date

2016-04-07

Copyright date

2016

Notes

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Crashworthiness on 07 Apr 2016, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13588265.2016.1166707

ISSN

1358-8265

eISSN

1754-2111

Language

  • en

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