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New Vehicle Roof Interior Design Concepts for Occupant Neck Protection During Rollover Crashes

Researchers at the Bioengineering Center at WSU have developed an interior roof design that reduces the coefficient of friction (COF) between the head and the roof or reduces the COF between the padding and its supporting structure. Rollover crashes are the most hazardous crashes to the human cervical spine. It has been reported that the neck is the...

Published: 5/7/2010 | Inventor(s): Jingwen Hu, King-Hay Yang, Clifford Chou, Albert King

Keywords(s): Headliner, Roll_Over_Crashes

Category(s): Automotive & Transportation, Safety, Physical Sciences, Simulation & Modeling, Software