International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Injury

2022 IRCOBI Conference Proceedings

14 – 16 September 2022 – Porto, Portugal

International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Injury


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These proceedings were reviewed and approved for publication in conjunction with the 2022 IRCOBI Europe conference.

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Session S1-1: Field data analysis
IRC-22-10 Priorities in Far-side Protection – What can we learn from field data for the development of virtual testing protocols?
C Klug, R Rudd, S Fitterer, E Tomasch, H Blume, M Craig, P Wernicke
IRC-22-11 Injury Severity Prediction using Functional Data Analysis based on Select Vehicle Category from NASS-CDS
S Ejima, T Goto, Z Peng, K Cunningham, S Wang
IRC-22-12 Female vs. Male Relative Risk of Body System Injuries in Fatal and Non-Fatal Crashes
M Abrams*, C Bass
IRC-22-13 Short communication: An Improved Occupant Injury Severity Model for Rollover Crashes to Account for Advances in Ejection Mitigation
L Riexinger, S King, R Sherony, T Hasegawa, H Gabler
Session S1-2: Head and brain injuries
IRC-22-14 Development and Analysis of Metrics to Predict 5th Percentile Female Brain Strain Using Rotational Head Kinematics
K Reynier*, J Forman, B Mueller, J Jermakian, M Panzer
IRC-22-15 Short communication: Fracture Sensitivity of a Human head Model in Surrogate Drone Impacts
C Pozzi, B Paccard, F Bermond, P Beillas
IRC-22-16 Short communication: Assessment of Brain Injury Criteria using Head Kinematics Data from Crash Tests and Accident Reconstructions
J Östh, K Bohman, L Jakobsson
IRC-22-17 Short communication: Stress-test a deep learning brain injury model using idealized impact kinematic profiles
N Lin, S Wu, S Ji
IRC-22-18 Short communication: Inter-Subject Variability in the Brain’s Response to Rotational Loading
A Alshareef, J Giudice, T Wu, K Reynier, J Forman, M Panzer
IRC-22-19 Short communication: The Effect of Surrogate Scalp Thickness on The Impact Response of a Physical Head Brain Model
Y Li, K Adanty, P Vakiel, S Ouellet, A Vette, D Raboud, C Dennison
IRC-22-20 Short communication: Occupant head injury assessment for bullet trains using dummy crash tests
G Deng, C Simms, T Xu, Y Peng, Z Li, L Hou, Q Che, Y Yu, Z Liu
Session S1-3: Vulnerable Road Users
IRC-22-21 Development of a multibody 50th percentile model for Euro NCAP’s Pedestrian Test Protocol
J Asensio-Gil, R Lancashire, E Dijkstra, A Carnicero, F López-Valdés
IRC-22-22 Positioning and Simulation of Human Body Models on a Motorcycle with a Novel Restraint System
S Maier, F Kempter, S Kronwitter, J Fehr
IRC-22-23 Prospective Evaluation of Autonomous Emergency Braking systems Performance in Car-to-Powered Two-Wheelers Accidents in France.
J Saadé, H Chajmowicz, S Cuny
IRC-22-24 Short communication: Thorax Injuries in VRU Accidents – an Evidence-based Approach
H Staack, V Labenski
IRC-22-25 Short communication: Upper-body injuries in bicyclists caused by the car front
S Schick, K Bauer, L Rahm, M Wisch, O Zander, S Peldschus
IRC-22-26 Short communication: A Powered Two-Wheeler Crash Test Dummy
J Carroll*, B Been, H Sundmark, M Burleigh, B Li
Session S1-4: Human Body Models
IRC-22-27 Evaluation of GHBMC, THUMS and SAFER Human Body Models in Frontal Impacts in Reclined Postures
B Gepner, D Perez-Rapela, J Forman, M Ostling, B Pipkorn, J Kerrigan*
IRC-22-28 Short communication: Analysis of head and neck kinematics of the VIVA+ and THUMS V5 HBM in a generic rear‐impact simulation
L Trummler, A Keller, K‐U Schmitt, M Muser
IRC-22-29 Short communication: An Adaptive Transferring Framework to Accelerate the Development of Occupant Injury Prediction Algorithms
Q Wang, D Xu, S Shang, B Nie
IRC-22-30 Short communication: The Influence of Initial Static Seat-belt Loads on Posture in Human Body Model Crash Simulations
B von Kleeck, J Caffrey, J Hallman, A Weaver, F Gayzik
IRC-22-31 Short communication: Analysis of Boundary Conditions in Locally Focused Passive Validation Experiments for Human Body Models
D Hauptstein, L Siebler, J Muehlbauer, S Schick, S Thaler, S Schaefer, S Peldschus
IRC-22-32 Short communication: Landmark-free Mesh Morphing Method for Statistical and Subject-specific Modelling: A Geometric Deep Learning-based Solution
J Tang, Q Zhou
Session S1-5: Sex differences and PMHS testing
IRC-22-33 Biomechanical Responses of Small Female PMHS Subjected to Abdominal Loading
R Ramachandra, Y-S Kang, J Stammen, E Lee, K Moorhouse, J Bolte IV
IRC-22-34 Population Variance in Pelvic Response to Lateral Impacts - A Global Sensitivity Analysis
E Brynskog, J Iraeus, B Pipkorn, J Davidsson
IRC-22-35 Validation of Small Female Foot and Ankle Finite Element Model under Shod Automotive Loading Environment.
S Mukherjee, W Zeng, C Roberts, A Caudillo, J Forman, M Panzer
IRC-22-36 Finite Element Human Body Models to study Sex-differences in Whiplash Injury: Validation of VIVA+ passive response in rear-impact
J John, I Putra, J Iraeus
IRC-22-37 Short communication: Toward Improved Safety Equity: An Efficient, Parametric and Posable Finite Element Human Model Representing a Diverse Population
J Hu, M Dhawan, X Fan, M Reed*
Session S1-6: Methodology
IRC-22-38 An Open-Source Finite Element Model of a Generic Car Seat: Development and Validation for Low-Severity Rear Impact Evaluations
J Genzel, A Carlsson, A Linder, B Pipkorn, M Svensson
IRC-22-39 Translating Post-mortem Human Subject Injury Risk to Dummy Injury Risk at Iso-energy
M Ortiz-Paparoni, C Morino*, J Op ‘t Eynde, J Kait, R. Nightingale, C Bass
IRC-22-40 Short communication: Assessment of a Perfusion and Ventilation Method for Detecting Soft Tissue Injury in a Post-Mortem Human Subject Model through Histological Examination
C Bir, K Rafaels, M Wong, M Lewis, K Inaba
IRC-22-41 Short communication: Combined Computational and Experimental Protocol for Assessing the Biomechanical Efficacy of Femoral Augmentation for Preventing Hip Fractures
A Fung, E Bliven, A Baker, I Fleps, P Cripton, P Guy, S Ferguson, B Helgason
IRC-22-42 Short communication: Use of High-Speed X-Ray to Document Bone-Implant Motion and Fracture During a Post-Mortem Human Subject Fall Impact
E Bliven, A Fung, J Levine, I Fleps, B Helgason, P Guy, P Cripton
IRC-22-43 Short communication: XSENSOR High-Speed Impact System in PMHS Thoracic Impact Testing.
J Bolte IV, M Van Meter, M Roberts, T Gorjanc, K Schilling, Y-S Kang
IRC-22-44 Short communication: A Fast and Biofidelic Repositioning Toolbox for Finite Element Human Body Models
J Tang, Q Zhou
IRC-22-45 Short communication: Improving belt webbing material modelling for human body model simulations
J Peres
Session S1-7: Anthropomorphic Test Devices (ATD)
IRC-22-46 Predicting Real-World Thoracic Injury Using THOR and Hybrid III Crash Tests
M Brumbelow, J Jermakian, R Arbelaez
IRC-22-47 THOR-AV 50th Percentile Male Biofidelity Evaluation in 25° and 45° Seatback Angle Test Conditions with a Semi-Rigid Seat
J Wang, L Zaseck, M Reed
IRC-22-48 Biofidelity Evaluation of the Hybrid-III 50th Male and the THOR-50M in Reclined Frontal Impact Sled Tests
J Shin*, J Donlon, R Richardson, B Gepner, J Forman, M Östling, J Kerrigan
Session S1-8: Tissue mechanics
IRC-22-49 Skeletal Site and Method-dependent Variability of Bone Mineral Density in Injury Biomechanics Research
Z Haverfield*, R Hunter, K Loftis, A Agnew
IRC-22-50 Short communication: Relationships between Age, Sex, and Number and Type of Fractures in Human Tibiae
A Harden, K Stull, Y-S Kang, A Bendig, J Bolte IV, A Agnew
IRC-22-51 Short communication: Relationships Between Continuum Lung Tissue Strains, Alveolar Wall Strains and the Potential for Injury
D Singh, D Cronin
IRC-22-52 Short communication: An Assessment of Soft Tissue Mesh Quality Contribution to Finite Element Motion Segment Model Response in the Context of Morphed Models
M Corrales, D Cronin
IRC-22-53 Short communication: Fitting of a Hyper Quasi-Linear Viscoelastic Model for Brain Tissue and Assessment in Head Impact Scenario
A Rycman, M Bustamante, D Cronin
Session S1-9: Vulnerable Road Users
IRC-22-54 Characteristics of fatal and serious cyclist collisions in Ireland: Analysis of police investigation files
K Gildea, A Kervick, C Simms
IRC-22-55 Investigation of e-scooter drivers colliding with kerbs – a parametric numerical study
P Matt, M Jenerowicz, T Schweiger, F Heisch, J Lienhard, M Boljen
IRC-22-56 Short communication: Assessing the influence of parameter variation on kinematic head injury metric uncertainty in multibody reconstructions of real-world pedestrian vehicle and ground impacts
C Baker*, A Montemiglio, R Li, P Martin, M Wilson, D Sharp, M Ghajari
IRC-22-57 Short communication: Adaptive bumper towards scenario-specific pedestrian protection: conceptual design and preliminary evaluation of injury mitigation performance
W Shen, Q Zhou, J Tang
IRC-22-58 Short communication: A Genetic Algorithm to Infer Contact Characteristics In Multibody Simulations for a Known Target Signal: Application to Pedestrian Head Windscreen Contact
D Hall, C Masson, C Simms
IRC-22-59 Short communication: The Face Airbag: A Novel Concept for Facial Impact Protection
S Meng, S Gowda, N Lubbe
Session S1-10: Anthropomorphic Test Devices (ATD)
IRC-22-60 Biomechanical Responses of THOR-AV in a Semi-Rigid Seat that Mimics the Front and Rear Seat of a Midsize Car
J Wang, O Richard, M Lebarbé, J Uriot, E Kabadayi, C Kleessen
IRC-22-61 Comparison of the Thorax and Head/Neck Dynamics of an Elderly Female, the HIII 50th Male and the HIII 5th Female Dummies as Front Passengers in Full-width Frontal Impacts
A Schäuble, F Zippel, T Wackenroder, P Rücker, T Kinsky, T Durak, D Preissner, D Frey
IRC-22-62 Forearm Impactor Tests for Development of Injury Risk Assessment Capability
B Pipkorn, J Forman, M Björklund, J Risberg, L Jakobsson
IRC-22-63 Comparison of the THOR 5th to the Hybrid III 5th in Full Scale Frontal Crash Tests
K Tang*, S Tylko, A Bussières
Session S2-1: High energy trauma
IRC-22-64 A Multibody Model of the Spine for Injury Prediction in High-Rate Vertical Loading
L Low, N Newell, S Masouros
IRC-22-65 Characterising the Back-face Deformation of Ballistic Shields using an Augmented WorldSID Upper Limb
J de Lange*, L Burrows, J-S Binette, C Quenneville
IRC-22-66 Short communication: A Concussion Threshold is Emerging in the Top 1% of Head Impacts in the Military and Athletes
A Bartsch
IRC-22-67 Short communication: THUMS as a numerical investigation tool to study the effect of anti-personnel mine blast on lower extremity
A Vikram, P Panday, A Chawla, S Mukherjee
IRC-22-68 Short communication: Evaluation of Blast Energy Attenuating Floor Mats in Underbody Blast
T Pandelani
IRC-22-69 Short communication: Behind Armor Blunt Trauma Injuries Assessment with Clay Backing: A Meta-Analysis of Injury Risk Functions and a Proposed Cavity Volume-Depth Model
G Pageau, S Ouellet, A Bouamoul
Session S2-2: Child safety
IRC-22-70 Influence of Initial Belt Torso Contact on the Kinematics and Kinetics of Booster‐Seated ATDs in Frontal Impacts
G Baker*, J Mansfield, J Bolte IV
IRC-22-71 Parametric Analysis of The Effect of CRS Seatback Angle in Dummy Measurements in Frontal Impacts.
M Valdano, J Asensio-Gil, J Jiménez-Octavio, M Cabello-Reyes, R Vasserot-Tolmos, F López-Valdés
IRC-22-72 Effect of Crash Pulse Characteristics on Child Restraint System Performance in Front Impact Sled Tests
C Visvikis, J Ellway, C Thurn, T Müller
IRC-22-73 Short communication: Child Occupant Interactions with an Under-thigh Airbag in Reclined and Upright Seating Postures using Computational Models
R Gellner, K Dong, S Johansson, L Furton
IRC-22-74 Short communication: The effect of a severe reclined seat back on the kinematics of the booster seated Large- Omnidirectional Child Anthropomorphic Test Device
V Graci, H Hauschild, J Maheshwari, J Humm
Session S2-3: Occupant's variability and ATD
IRC-22-75 The Influence of Occupant’s Size, Shape and Seat Adjustment in Frontal and Side Impacts
A Leledakis*, J Östh, J Iraeus, J Davidsson, L Jakobsson
IRC-22-76 Occupant Age and Size Characteristics by Seating Location in Tow-Away Crashes Involving Light Vehicles in the United States
C Parenteau, D Viano, I Campbell
IRC-22-77 Comparison of rib bone surrogates from additive manufacturing, cast material and PMHS data under dynamic loading
M Jenerowicz, T Haase, M Linnenberg, K Hoschke, M Boljen, S Hiermaier
IRC-22-78 Short communication: The Effect of Posture on Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue: A Preliminary Imaging Study
A Robinson, S Efobi, S Moore, J Aira, L Lenchik, A Weaver, F-C Hsu, J Hallman, F Gayzik
IRC-22-79 Short communication: Front-Seat Passenger Head Locations Based on Naturalistic and Laboratory Data
M. Reed
IRC-22-80 Short communication: In Preparation for Enable New Occupant Seating Positions: the ENOP Project
M Östling, M Lebarbé, S Compigne, M Masuda, P Beillas, A Eggers, P Petit, P Lemmen, O Richard, F López Valdés
Session S2-4: Sports injuries
IRC-22-81 Short communication: Finite Element Simulations of a Concussion Case in High School Soccer
C Huber, D Patton, J Maheshwari, Z Zhou, S Kleiven, K Arbogast
IRC-22-82 Short communication: Preliminary Characterisation of Soccer Header Technique and Head Kinematics via High-Speed Motion Capture and Instrumented Mouthpiece
T Filben, J Stitzel, J Urban, K Nicholson
IRC-22-83 Short communication: Estimation of Low-Severity Rugby Union Ruck Collisions
E Reid, C Mercadal-Baudart, K Gildea, R Blythman, A Smolic, G Farrell, C Simms
IRC-22-84 Short communication: Comparing Head Acceleration Events in Elite Men’s and Women’s Rugby Union Tackle Events Using Instrumented Mouthguards and Video Analysis
J Woodward*, J Tooby, G Tierney
IRC-22-85 Short communication: Quantifying and Characterising Head Kinematics from Non-Contact Events using Instrumented Mouthguards
J Tooby, J Woodward, G Tierney
IRC-22-86 Short communication: The Kinematics of Football (Soccer) Heading Inside and Outside the Penalty Area
O Stelzer-Hiller, G Askew, J Tooby, D Sokol-Randell, G Tierney
Session S2-5: Pre-crash analyses
IRC-22-87 Effects of Boundary Conditions and Posture on Simulations with Human Body Models of Braking Events
N Erlinger, D Kofler, E Heider, C Klug
IRC-22-88 Short communication: Bracing strategies in forward leaning occupants: the effect of seat-belt pre-pretension and a startle warning during braking acceleration
V Graci*, M Griffith, T Seacrist, D Brase, E Mishra, B Pipkorn, N Lubbe, K Arbogast
IRC-22-89 Short communication: An Experimental Framework of Capturing Driver’s Pre-Crash Active Behaviour under Safety-critical Scenarios
X Pei, S Gan, Q Li, Q Zhou, J Wang, B Nie
IRC-22-90 Short communication: Building a Posture Incorporated Dataset of Occupant Injuries in Vehicle Collisions Based on Multi-source Data Fusion
S Shang, X Pei, Q Li, B Nie
IRC-22-91 Short communication: Accident Risk when Resuming the Manual Control of an Automated Car: a Driving Simulator Study
E Gallouin, B Richard, P Beillas, T Bellet, X Wang
IRC-22-92 Short communication: Intelligent selection of two-vehicle collision conditions to minimize occupant injuries
S Yang, Q Wang, Q Zhou
IRC-22-93 Short communication: Solver- and Model-Agnostic Method to Transfer Pre-Crash Occupant Kinematics to an In-Crash Occupant Model for Continuous Occupant Assessment
D Breitfuß, C Klein, R Lancashire, F Bosma, J Pucher, W Leitgeb
Session S2-6: Thoracic injuries and seat belts
IRC-22-94 Influence of Individual Ribcage Shape Variability on Occupant Rib Fracture Risk
K-J Larsson, J Iraeus, B Pipkorn, S Holcombe
IRC-22-95 Chest Loading Reduction with an Additional Load Limiter in the Lower Inboard Diagonal belt: a Simulation Study with the SAFER Human Body Model and THOR on a Rear Seat
A Soni, S Schilling, J Faust, B Eickhoff
IRC-22-96 Investigation of Effective Restraining Force on Rib Fracture Risk Reduction for Elderly Occupant in Frontal Collision
Y Takahira, Y Hayashi, T Kasai, S Hayashi, Y Kosugi, Y Ngueveu, A Lucchini-Gilera
IRC-22-97 A Method for Thoracic Injury Risk Function Development for Human Body Models
J Forman*, S Kulkarni, D Perez‐Rapela, S Mukherjee, M Panzer, J Hallman
IRC-22-98 Sensitivity of Established and Alternative Rear Occupant Thoracic Injury Metrics to Seat Belt Design Variables in Frontal Impacts
M Edwards, S Jagtap, J Jermakian
Session S2-7: Volunteer testing, active HBMs, and muscle biomechanics
IRC-22-99 Occupant Kinematics of Braced 5th Percentile Female and 50th Percentile Male Volunteers in Low-Speed Frontal and Frontal-Oblique Sled Tests
H Chan, D Albert, F Gayzik, A Kemper
IRC-22-100 Passenger Kinematics Variance in Different Vehicle Manoeuvres – Biomechanical Response Corridors Based on Principal Component Analysis
E Larsson*, G Ghaffari, J Iraeus, J Davidsson
IRC-22-101 Human Body Model Muscle Activation Influence on Crash Response
J Östh, E Larsson, L Jakobsson
Session S2-8: Spinal injuries
IRC-22-102 Evaluation of the GHBMC Lumbar Spine in Sub-injurious and Injurious Loading
S Tushak*, B Gepner, B Pipkorn, J Kerrigan
IRC-22-103 Short communication: Investigation of fluid movement in intervertebral discs under compression using magnetic resonance imaging
C Espelien, J McMahon, G Miller, R Salzar
IRC-22-104 Short communication: Subject-specific Lumbar Spine Finite Element Model Creation and Validation using Dynamic Compression
L Rieger, D Draper, A Shah, S Peldschus, B Stemper
IRC-22-105 Short communication: Fluid Structural Interaction Studies of Cervical Disc for Whiplash Loading
K Pugazhenthi, J Davidson, P Yuvaraj, R Sivakumar, N Yoganandan
IRC-22-106 Short communication: Anatomical Enhancements to the Upper Cervical Spine FE Model Improved the Intervertebral Response Required for Injury Assessments in Non-neutral Neck Postures
P Hadagali, D Cronin
Session S2-9: Head injuries, helmets
IRC-22-107 Influence of Headform on Assessments and Ratings of the Protective Performance of Bicycle Helmets
N Lindgren, P Halldin, M Fahlstedt
IRC-22-108 How Efficient are the Rotational Impact Tests in ECE R22.06 Motorcycle Helmet Test Standard to Decrease the Rotational-Induced Brain Injuries?
M Fahlstedt, J Bergström, D Lanner, P Halldin
IRC-22-109 Short communication: Design of a Honeycomb Energy Absorbing Structure for Bicycle Helmets
A King, B Yu, C Quenneville
IRC-22-110 Short communication: Head Protection in Micromobility: Materials and Design
G Serra*, R Alves de Sousa, E Noronha, F Fernandes
IRC-22-111 Short communication: The Design of a Preliminary Surrogate Model of The Human Calvarium Using a Readily Available Epoxy
K Adanty, A Brice, K Rabey, S Adeeb, D Romanyk, C Dennison
Session S2-10: Volunteer testing, active HBMs, and muscle biomechanics
IRC-22-112 Active Human Body Model Simulations of Whole-Sequence Braking and Far-Side Side-Impact Configurations
J Wass, J Östh, L Jakobsson
IRC-22-113 Analysis of Individual Variabilities for Lumbar and Pelvic Alignment in Highly Reclined Seating Postures and Occupant Kinematics in a Collision
T Izumiyama, N Nishida, H Yamagata, R Asahi, X Chen, J Ohgi, S Sugimoto, M Fukushima
IRC-22-114 Short communication: The Effect of Pre-Impact Bracing on the Peak Neck Muscle Activation and Onset Time in Headfirst Freefalls
L Al-Salehi*, P Cripton, G Siegmund
IRC-22-115 Short communication: Evaluating Passive Human Body Models against Non-injurious Lateral Head Impacts Measured in Volunteers
S Mukherjee, K Reynier, B Igo, S Kulkarni, K Chastain, M Panzer
IRC-22-116 Short communication: Safety Assessment of E-Scooter Riders from a Naturalistic Driving Study
R Tian, L Li, Y Chen, S Chien, R Sherony
IRC-22-117 Short communication: Simulating the Influence of Lap-belt Load Limiting on Injury Risks for Upright and Reclined Occupants with the SAFER Human Body Model
M Östling, L Eriksson

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