Passive Safety

Lecturer:

Jan Kovanda (gar.)

Tutor:

Supervisor:

Department of Electric Drives and Traction

Synopsis:

Overview of passive safety measures in vehicles and biomechanics of impact.

Design principles from the safety point of view, legislation. Strategies of accidents reduction. Injury biomechanics, mechanisms and severity of injuries. Correlation between external loadings and injury severity according to AIS. Crash-test dummies, design, biofidelity, sensitivity. Injury mechanisms, anatomy, injury criteria and tolerances of head, thorax and spine. Influence of restraint systems, especially safety belts, airbags, and child seats.

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

1.Passive safety - definition, role

2.Legislation and vehicle testing

3.Vehicle car body structure

4.Crashworthiness - deformation characteristics of car body front part

5.Car body design for safety

6.Restraint systems design (airbag, safety belts)

7.Restraint systems sensing and activation, misuse prevention

8.Traffic accident, consequences, statistics

9.Mechanisms of injury

10.Injury criteria - overview

11.Crash test dummies - design, sensors

12.Safety of motorcycles

13.Problems of bus roll-over

14.Crash tests of CTU - strategy, target, discussion

Syllabus of tutorials:

Study Objective:

Study materials:

[1] Kovanda J., Satochin V.: Passive safety of vehicles (in CZ -Pasivní bezpecnost vozidel) Praha, CVUT FD, 2000

[2] Kovanda, J., Riva, R.: Vehicle-human Interaction. Ed. Spiegel, Milano, 1999

[3] First, J: Testing of Cars and Motorcycles (in Czech - Zkouseni automobilu a motocyklu). SnT Praha 2008

[4] Bosch: Driving-safety Systems. Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, 1999

[5] Kramer, F: Passive Sicherheit von Kraftfahrzeugen. Vieweg, Wiesbaden, 2009

Crash analysis criteria description - available on: [6] http://www.ni.com/pdf/products/us/crash_functions_descriptions.pdf

journals:

[7] Automotive Engineer

[8] Transactions on Transport Sciences (www.transportsciences.org )

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Fri
Thu
Fri	roomT2:B3-259 Kovanda J. 08:15–10:00 (lecture parallel1) Dejvice Konzultacka

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans: