This three day workshop will be held 13 – 15 March 2012 in Berlin (Germany).

The purpose of this joined Workshop is to inform the public about the outcome of the projects through presentations and demonstrators and to discuss future research needs for child safety.

CASPER EPOCh flyer (634.62 kB)

In order to get a broader insight CASPER starts an internet survey encouraging parents from world-wide to take part.

Select your language

• Deutsch: CASPER Kindersitz-Umfrage
• English: CASPER Child Seat Questionnaire
• Español: Encuesta CASPER sobre sillitas infantiles
• France: Enquête sociologique sur la sécurité de l’enfant dans l’automobile
• Italiano: CASPER e i sistemi di ritenuta bambini
• Ελληνικά: CASPER Ερωτηματολόγιο για καθίσματα νηπίων
• Polski: CASPER Ankieta dotycząca fotelików samochodowych dla dzieci

During 1.5 day (November 29^th and 30^th) program in conjunction with the International Conference Protection of Children in Cars various topics including accident surveys, dummy developments, human body modelling activities and development of new test procedures were presented. The workshop was joined by 32 participants from industry, governments, test houses, research groups and academia.

Presentations

Opening and welcome

• COVER Introduction
• CASPER project Introduction
• EPOCh project Introduction

Accident data analysis for children

• Accident data overview
• Injury mechanisms adolescence

Biomechanical aspects

• Biomechanical approach
• Anthropometry Input Q10

Abdominal injury assessment

• Proposed Q3 and Q6 dummy updates for submarining

Child himan models

• Child human models methodology and plans (objectives)
• Child human models anthropometry and internal geometry
• Child human models – 3YO human model
• Child human models – mechanical properties

Dummy and dummy model development

• Biomechanical_requirements Input Q10
• Q10 development
• Dummy model development

Use and misuse, sociologogical approach of child safety

• Use and Misuse – Field studies
• Sociological approach methodology
• Use and Misuse – Cultural comparison

Development of test procedures

• CASPER status of activities on test procedures
• Outlook into extending procedures for Q10

Outlook: Forecast of future work

• CASPER Forecast of future work

Conclusive discussion

• Summary workshop as presented at Protection of Children in Cars 2010

All presentations of the workshop can be downloaded at the COVER web site.

The CASPER and EPOCh projects on child safety are organising a joint mid-term workshop to present their research findings on child safety and to discuss future activities. This two day workshop will be held on 29 and 30 November 2010 in Munich (Germany).

Although significant achieve-ments have been made in reducing fatalities and injuries in traffic accidents over the last decade, continued efforts are needed to bring the num-bers down further. Motivated by this, the CASPER and EPOCh projects will address some aspects of child safety in vehicles.

Workshop

A workshop is organised under the flag of the COVER Coordination and Support Action. The purpose of this joined Workshop is to inform the public about the progress of CASPER and EPOCh and to receive feedback on future research direction via open discussions. Participation in this event is free of charge.

Registrations can be made online.

Agenda

Download

• COVER Child Safety Workshop
• Agenda CASPER – EPOCh Mid Term Workshop V2 09-11-2010

3YO FE Child Model

In the following table you can find the data of the selected base for the 3YO human model in comparison to the statistical average and the corresponding Q3 dummy.

*) statistical data is based on the UMTRI database (1977)
**) The Q-Dummy Family is based on the CANDAT database (newer data from the 1990ies, not available for the public)
***) Pulmonary disease – disease that causes narrowing of the airways in the lungs. This leads to a limitation of the flow of air to and from the lungs causing shortness of breath. This disease can cause abnormal growth of the lungs and the ribcage (reduced lung volume, connected with the abnormity of the ribcage and the neighbour organs size).

TU Berlin takes over the part of modelling the thorax / abdomen for the 3 y.o. child.

The main focus in modelling of the torso lies on the following inner organs:

3YO FE Child Model organs

The other inner organs / the digestive system will be modelled with a simplified model, as injuries in this area are not that often like with the mentioned above.

For the validation procedure of the final model only few studies are available. Most of them are from the 80ies and were performed with PMHS’s (post mortem human subject). For the mechanical properties of certain inner organs with no available test data, the numerical material characteristics will be scaled down from the adult data. Another option is to fall back on data gained from animal tests (as long as comparable). Possible candidates for this purpose are e.g. monkeys or young swine’s.