Impact Biomechanics Committee
1.Aim of activity
This committee will aggregate domestic technical information and knowledge related to impact biomechanics research, which is the basis for improving automobile collision safety performance, and provide a forum for exchanging opinions with related parties. Taking advantage of the characteristics of this committee, whose members include not only engineering researchers but also experts in the medical field and accident investigation and analysis, we will develop mechanical analysis during collisions, damage mechanisms of human body organization, impact resistance, and injury evaluation standards and tools. We deepen our knowledge through the provision of a wide range of topics, such as severity assessment including QOL, investigation and analysis of actual accident situations, and working group activities on specific themes, and plan public committees to provide feedback on the progress of these activities to members. expand. In addition, through close collaboration with the standards committee, we will actively contribute to the formulation of domestic and international collision safety standards and basic research by providing knowledge to ISO international technical standard formulation activities, etc.
2.Chairman/Secretary (2024-25)
| Chairman | Masahito Hitosugi (Shiga Medical University) |
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3.Main target areas/matters
- car body structure
- Injury criteria
- collision safety
- Human model/dummy
- Damage reduction
- shock absorption
- accident analysis
- Injury prediction
- injury mechanism
- safety human body model
4. Volunteer activities
The committee will hold regular meetings as a place for experts from both engineering and medical fields to collaborate and exchange information and discuss the latest research trends in impact biomechanics, information on traffic injuries and traffic accident occurrences, etc. In particular, regarding brain injuries caused by traffic accidents, a working group under the committee will collect domestic knowledge and information and make technical contributions to relevant domestic and international organizations, including the Japan Automobile Technical Association Standards Council and ISO. . In addition, if possible, we will invite overseas experts in the field to hold public committee meetings to gain an understanding of overseas research trends, which will help revitalize domestic research activities.