Injury Criteria of Child and Adult Dummies

Abstract Human injury tolerance is difficult because of physical differences between humans and animals, dummies and cadaver tissue. Human volunteer testing has been done but at sub injurious levels (Stapp, 1986 and Ewing, 1972). Considerable biomechanical engineering and tissue studies exist for the adult human cadaver however little is available for the pediatric population (Kumaresan, 1999). A number of dummies have recently been made available principally for airbag testing to bridge the gap between the 50 percentile hybrid III male dummy and the 95 percentile male dummy. (Kleinberger. 1998) The air bag dummies including the 12-month old CRABI dummy, 3-year old Hybrid III dummy, 6-year old Hybrid III dummy, the Hybrid III small female, Hybrid II mid-size male and 95 percentile large male are discussed.