Hayashi S, Yasuki T, Yamamae Y, Takahira Y: A study of side airbag effectiveness in reducing chest injury in car to car side impacts using a FE model. International IRCOBI Research
Conference on the Biomechanics of Impact, Madrid, Spain, September 20-22, 2006, 397-400.
The effect of side airbag in reducing chest injury in car-to-car side impacts was studied using a human FE model (THUMS). A simulation was conducted assuming that a car was struck
by another car at 50 km/h impact speed. Injuries were predicted for both front and rear seat occupants, and compared between cases with and without side airbags. Rib fractures were
observed in the inferior thorax regardless of seating position without side air bags. With side air bags, on the other hand, the number of rib fractures was reduced because of smaller local deformation.
Yet another study showing that side airbags reduce injuries. In my office in Greenbelt, MD we see a fair amount of patients that have been in side impact collisions. Unfortunately, not all of the vehicles involved contain side airbags. It's certainly good to see more and more vehicles with side airbags STANDARD.
-Dr. Louis S. Crivelli II
Chiropractor
Greenbelt, MD
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