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Title	Head impact modelling using MADYMO simulations of documented pedestrian accidents
Authors	Garrett M
Year	1998
Type	Conference Paper
Abstract	For the couple of non-specialists out there who may not know about MADYMO simulation, it is almost an acronym for mathematical dynamic modelling. (Slide 1) It is a software package involving a model of Newtonian physics with multi-body models. We give them geometric and inertial properties, which we can measure or create through other software packages. From that we can run the model through the computer in small time steps and simulate what is happening. We are using MADYMO software packages to simulate pedestrian accidents. Today I will show how this work fits in, the generic MADYMO model I have created and the validation performed on the model, and I will use an example to go through the reconstruction of a particular accident and talk about how we select the accidents we model. I will talk about our results and further simulations, including sensitivities to some of the variables we use. This paper is related to yesterday's paper on neuropathological injury and child pedestrians, and our work is closely related to that. In our case we put more effort into ensuring the head impact conditions are well understood, which is the emphasis of my presentation today.
Publisher	Australian College of Road Safety
Publisher City	Canberra
Sponsor	VIC Roads, RACV, Federal Office of Road Safety, Australian Hotels Association
ISBN	095856910X
Conference Name	Conference on Pedestrian Safety
Conference Location	Melbourne, Australia
Conference Date	29-30 June 1998
Page Range	158-168
Page Count	17
Notes	available from CASR library on request

Reference

Garrett M (1998). Head impact modelling using MADYMO simulations of documented pedestrian accidents. Conference on Pedestrian Safety, (pp. 158-168). Canberra: Australian College of Road Safety.