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• Numerical modelling of different airbag folding patterns and their influence on occupant responses in frontal vehicle impact

  Publication

  • Ł. Pachocki
  • H. Fang

  - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CRASHWORTHINESS - Year 2024

  This paper presented a procedure for airbag folding for the application in occupant safety studies and analysed the influence of different airbag folding patterns on the occupant severity in frontal impact. Airbags were folded in two patterns: zig-zag and top-roll, using two folding techniques: Initial Metric Method and Explicit Folding. The explicit folding was found to be more expensive in terms of preparation time. However,...

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• Finite Element Analysis of Occupant Risk in Vehicular Impacts into Cluster Mailboxes

  Publication

  • E. Palta
  • Ł. Pachocki
  • D. Bruski
  • Q. Wang
  • C. Jaus
  • H. Fang

  - Computation - Year 2025

  The deployment of cluster mailboxes (CMs) in the U.S. has raised safety concerns for passengers in potential vehicular crashes involving CMs. This study investigated the crashworthiness of two types of CMs through nonlinear finite element simulations. Two configurations of CM arrangements were considered: a single- and a dual-unit setup. These CM designs were tested on flat-road conditions with and without a curb. A 2010 Toyota...

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