An innovative seat basin airbag installed on the front seat is developed as a solution to the over compression of the dummy chest in the event of full frontal impacts. The operation principle of the seat basin airbag is theoretically investigated to demonstrate its effect on restraining the movement in X-direction and reduce the compression of the dummy chest. The purpose of reducing chest compression of dummies can be achieved via seat basin airbag. A seat basin airbag model is established with the commercial code of MADYMO and its precision is validated by the tests on sub-system and components. A restraint system model for a SUV is established and validated via a full scale test. Putting seat basin airbag CAE module into the validated full scale restraint system model facilitates constructing an essential optimization scheme
in which DOE(design of experiment)optimization method and sensitivity analysis are performed for the installation position
angle and ignition time of the seat basin airbag. The analysis indicates that the compression of dummy chest can be reduced by 14.79%
and the movement of the pelvic is significantly restrained.
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