Dynamic Simulation of Biomechanical Behaviour of the Pelvis in the Lateral Impact Loads

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Journal J Healthc Eng

Specialty Biomedical Engineering

Date 2018 Oct 16

PMID 30319741

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Authors

Mohsen Hatami

Dongmei Wang

Aili Qu

Zeng Xiangsen

Qiugen Wang

Behzad Baradaran Kazemian

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Abstract

The objective of this study was to develop and validate a novel 3D dynamic model of a pelvic side-impactor system. The biomechanical responses of a pelvic flexible model (having .mnf file suffix) under the lateral impact load for predicting the bone fracture mechanism are investigated as well. The 3D solid model of the side-impactor system was imported into MSC/ADAMS software for analyzing the dynamic model, and the pelvic flexible model was extracted from the CT images of a Chinese female volunteer. The flexible model of the pelvis system was developed considering a wide range of mechanical properties in the bone complex and soft tissue to achieve a realistic biomechanical response during a lateral impact. Good agreements were achieved between the dynamic simulations and the experimental results of pelvic side impacts, in terms of the biomechanical criteria. The dynamic model of impactor system could be employed to investigate the hip protector effectiveness, improving the vehicle safety, and biomechanical response of the other human organs.

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