Determining the Impact Force upon the Hip Joint in a Frontal-Type Road Accident

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On account of the steadily increasing number of road casualties, the present research study underpins a thorough investigation on the impact issue between the driver’s knee and the vehicle’s dash board. Such type of impacts tends to occur especially in frontal collisions between a vehicle and an obstacle or another vehicle. Thus, aiming at determining the impact force in the coxofemoral joint, we have carried out a series of virtual simulations by means of the LS-DYNA software package. Also, we had to consider the influence the vehicle’s velocity impact displays upon the injury degree in the driver’s lower limbs area. Furthermore, an additional method to determine the impact force in this joint was to implement a mathematical modelling of the impact phenomenon. In the end, after having completed the two processes, we sought compare the results obtained both by the virtual simulation, and mathematical modelling.

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