A New Anthropomorphic Articulated Total Body Model for Trauma and Injury Investigations

This research activity is focused on the definition of a new methodology for the creation of a morphable, subject-specific ATB model for injury and trauma multibody analyses based on the definition of a statistical shape model (SSM) of the human body, able to accurately replicate the anthropomorphic external geometry of the human subject and derive the respective inertial and geometrical properties of body segments [3]. The anthropomorphic model was validated through experimental test performed on cadavers, taken from literature and aimed at investigating the pedestrian-car impact. The advancement obtained through anthropomorphic models compared to classical ellipsoidal models was assessed comparing results for a fall from a height, with and without midway impacts.