- Author
- Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development
- Title
- Anthropomorphic Dummies for Crash and Escape System Testing.
- Coporate
- Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development, France
- Report
- AGARD-AR-330, July 1996, 116 p.
- Keywords
- escape | aircraft accidents | performance evaluation | injuries | survival | safety engineering | safety devices | mathematical models | motor veicles | risks
- Identifiers
- dummies; anthropometry; biodynamics; survival; impact; constraining
- Abstract
- Anthropomorphic dummies for crash and escape system training have been used by military and civilian agencies for many years to assess, develop and standardize safer occupant restraint systems for land and air vehicles. The automotive industry has spent considerable effort in designing crash test dummies that are biofidelic; i.e., dummies that duplicate the properties of a representative human subject on which injury risk is to be assessed. This advisory report addresses the status and direction of the technology of aircraft ejection and automotive crash test dummies from the point of view of: historic review of important dummies developed in NATO; human biomechanical response requirements of current adult dummies; anthropometry of current adult dummies; injury tolerance criteria for impact exposure of these dummies; dummy instrumentation and data acquisition systems; new developments in dummies; mathematical models as human surrogates; and dummy users in NATO. Recommendations include the need for: relating aircraft system effectiveness testing to dummy injury criteria; full line of dummy sizes to accommodate entire flying population; enhanced dummy instrumentation and data acquisition systems; affordability of dummy acquisition, use and maintenance; and validation and increased use of mathematical models as human surrogates.