SURVEY OF RESEARCH ON AIRBAG FOR OCCUPANT INJURY PREVENTION FROM VEHICLE IMPACTS

Liu Zijian  Huang Tianze  Zhang Jianhua

(Hunan University)

Yang Jikuang

(Crash Safety Division Department of Machine and Vehicle Design, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

Abstract: The research on airbags in fatal injury prevention, the airbag induced injuries, and the latest development of airbag techniques, is surveyed. The literature study is focused on the accident analysis, the occupant injuries related to airbags, injury biomechanics, the evaluation method for airbags effectiveness, and the development up-to-date in this field.

Key words: Airbag  Vehicle impact  Injury prevention  Injury biomechanics
CLC No: U461.91 Q66
国家自然科学基金资助项目. Received 20000825, received in revised form 20001126