15_IND_EMPIRIC_P01 - Sensitivity analysis to determine the injury risk for a selected crash load case on the influence of the occupant position at t0, defining the baseline to secure occupant safety functions for integrated systems.

Sensitivity analysis of occupant posture at t0 on the injury risk in a selected crash load case for the purpose of functional validation of integral occupant protection systems Beschreibung: A reliable procedure for functional validation is key for evaluating the protection afforded by integral occupant protection systems already at an early stage of development. In state-of-the-art validation procedures the occupant is seated in a ‘standard position’ at t0, which makes functional validation straightforward and assessable through conventional and well-established experimental methods like crash tests. A functional validation for non-standard seating postures at t0 through conventional methods, though, is not feasible. The aim of this project is to establish a method which is able to assign criticality to initial occupant postures. Eventually the method will form the basis for the functional validation of integral occupant protection systems.