International - Optimal Impact Protection for Disabled Persons in Vehicles

0302337 Pilkey这是一项为两名杰出的俄罗斯科学家与美国同行合作提供支持的提议。 俄美团队以前曾合作过，并写了一本书，《最佳保护免受冲击、冲击和振动》（Gordon and Breach，2001），主要是关于军事硬件的最佳保护。 该小组希望在一个新的领域，即撞击条件下的伤害控制领域开展联合工作。 对轮椅乘员伤害保护的兴趣源于美国与会者曾担任弗吉尼亚大学残疾人交通研究中心主任。 他还是UVA汽车安全实验室（ASL）的创始人和主任，在那里进行了广泛的轮椅系留系统的高速雪橇测试。 ANSI/RESNA（美国国家标准协会/北美康复工程和辅助技术协会）耐撞轮椅标准的大部分雪橇测试都是在ASL进行的。 拟议研究的目标是开发技术，以表征残疾人在各种类型的车辆运输过程中受到的最佳（理论上最佳）保护。 “理论上最佳”在本提案中被称为极限性能。 限制性能涉及保护系统，其中系统的结构配置由通用力代替。 在这个项目中，特别感兴趣的是对预作用隔离装置的优点的调查。

0302337PilkeyThis is a proposal to provide support for two distinguished Russian scientists to work with a US counterpart. The Russian-US team has worked together previously and has written a book, Optimal Protection from Impact, Shock, and Vibration (Gordon and Breach, 2001), on optimal protection, primarily of military hardware. The team wishes to initiate joint work in a new area, namely that of injury control under impact conditions. The interest in wheelchair occupant injury protection stems from the US participant having served earlier as the director of the University of Virginia (UVA) transportation research center for persons with disabilities. He was also the founder and director of the UVA Automobile Safety Laboratory (ASL), where extensive high speed sled testing of wheelchair tiedown systems has been performed. Much of the sled testing for the development of the ANSI/RESNA (American National Standards Institute/Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America) crashworthy wheelchair standard was conducted at the ASL. The goal of the proposed research is to develop the technology for characterizing the best possible (theoretically optimal) protection from impact for disabled persons during their transportation in assorted types of vehicles. The "theoretically optimal" is referred to as the limiting performance in this proposal. The limiting performance involves a protection system in which the structural configuration of the system is replaced by a generic force. Of particular interest in this project will be an investigation of the advantages of a pre-acting isolation unit.