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      <title>THOR-05F Evaluation/Documentation - R&amp;R and Durability (VRTC) (Evaluation of Repeatability, Reproducibility, and Durability of the THOR-05F ATD)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The THOR-05F ATD is being developed to enable the possibility to address occupant protection concerns for small sized occupants involved in frontal crashes.  It is designed to have improved biofidelity and instrumentation as compared to existing small female frontal anthropometric test devices (ATDs). The increased capability of this dummy may also allow it to be used to assess injuries to older occupants, and makes it a prime candidate for being the most appropriate tool for assessing 5th female occupant safety in automated driving systems (ADS) alternative seating arrangements.  These projects address ATD evaluation and injury criteria development in the thorax, abdomen, neck , and knee-thigh-hip area]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2022 10:24:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Subdural Hematoma Injury Risk Curve Development for Older Occupants</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Because the proportion of older people in the US population is increasing, and older occupants are more likely to become injured and die from vehicle crashes compared to younger occupants, improving safety in vehicles for older occupants has become an important focus. Among older occupants, serious head and thorax injuries are the most frequent and life-threatening. This project addresses subdural hematoma, which becomes more frequent and more life-threatening with age. This project aims to provide human head kinematic and brain motion data during crash level severity tests to be used in development of an injury risk function for subdural hematoma.]]></description>
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      <title>Female-specific Response &amp; Injury Risk (Thorax/Ribs &amp; Abdomen)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This project involves testing small female post-mortem human subjects (PMHS) to evaluate thorax response prediction using new rib-based scaling method; assessing existing abdomen data/collecting more PMHS data to statistically compare female vs male pressure-based injury risk functions; and data analysis/development of rib fracture vulnerability metric using age and sex]]></description>
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      <title>Female-specific thorax data collection for injury risk function development</title>
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