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Anthropomorphic Test Devices

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Anthropomorphic test devices (ATDs), commonly referred to as dummies, are mechanical surrogates of the human that are used by the automotive industry to evaluate the occupant protection potential of various types of restraint systems in simulated collisions of new vehicle designs. Current ATDs are designed to be biofidelic; that is, they mimic pertinent human physical characteristics such as size, shape, mass, stiffness, and energy absorption and dissipation, so that their mechanical responses simulate corresponding human responses of trajectory, velocity, acceleration, deformation, and articulation when the dummies are exposed to prescribed simulated collision conditions. They are instrumented with transducers that measure accelerations, deformations, and loading of various body parts. Analyses of these measurements are used to assess the efficacy of restraint system designs.

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Mertz, H.J. (2002). Anthropomorphic Test Devices. In: Nahum, A.M., Melvin, J.W. (eds) Accidental Injury. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21787-1_4

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