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WCX SAE World Congress Experience WCX SAE World Congress Experience Technical Session Schedule As of April 27, 2020 19:40:12 PM Tuesday, April 21 Occupant Protection: Integrated Safety Systems Session Code SS503 Room 140 A Session 9:30 a.m. The session starts with a keynote presentation of “Biomechanics Considerations for Future Mobility – Resetting the Occupant Protection Paradigm”, followed by papers (1) The Effects of Small Seat Swiveling Angles on Occupant Responses during a Frontal Impact (2) A Study of Driver's Driving Concentration Based on Computer Vision Technology, and (3) Drowsy Driver & Child Left Behind – Prevention via in Cabin CO2 Sensing. Organizers - Clifford Chou, Wayne State University; Francis S. Gayzik, Wake Forest Univ. School of Medicine; Jingwen Hu, Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Lingxi Li, Indiana Univ. Purdue Univ. Indianapolis Chairperson - Jingwen Hu, Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Scott Gayzik, Wake Forest University; Lingxi Li, Indiana Univ. Purdue Univ. Indianapolis Time Paper No. Title 9:30 a.m. ORAL ONLY Technical Keynote: Biomechanics Considerations for Future Mobility – Resetting the Occupant Protection Paradigm Jason Forman, University of Virginia Center for Applied Biomechanics 10:00 a.m. 2020-01-0573 Drowsy Driver & Child Left Behind - Prevention via in Cabin CO2 Sensing Henrik Rödjegård, Senseair Sweden; Michael Franchy, Asahi Kasei America Inc.; Staffan Ehde, Senseair Sweden; Yassine Zoubir, Senseair Germany; Sam Al- Khaldy, Patrik Olsson, Senseair Sweden; Carl Bengtsson, Tony Nowak, Don O'Brien, Senseair USA 10:30 a.m. ORAL ONLY Strategies for Upper Extremity Active Muscle Response in Simplified Human Body Models Karan Devane, Presented by: F. Scott Gayzik, Wake Forest University The papers in this session are available in SAE Technical Paper Collection, COLL-TP-00669, and also Planned by Occupant Protection Committee / Automobile Body, Chassis, Safety, and Structures Activity Tuesday, April 21 Occupant Protection: Pedestrian and Cyclist Safety Session Code SS505 Room 140 A Session 1:00 p.m. The pedestrian and cyclist safety session focuses on research and development efforts aimed at protecting pedestrians and cyclists in the event of vehicle impact. Papers on injury biomechanics, vehicle design, dummy and impactor development, computational modeling, regulations and consumer assessment testing, active safety and collision avoidance are accepted for this session. Organizers - Jason Forman, Jason Kerrigan, Univ. of Virginia; Bingbing Nie, Tsinghua University; David Poulard, C.E.E.S.A.R. Time Paper No. Title 1:00 p.m. 2020-01-0932 Comparison of Head Kinematics of Bicyclist in Car-to-Bicycle Impact Chinmoy Pal, Shigeru Hirayama, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.; Pratap Naidu Vallabhaneni, Kulothungan Vimalathithan, Jeyabharath Manoharan, RNTBCI WCX SAE World Congress Experience Technical Session Schedule As of April 27, 2020 19:40:14 PM Time Paper No. Title 1:30 p.m. 2020-01-0930 PTW Passive Safety: Numerical Study of Standard Impact Scenarios with Rider Injury Risk Assessment Tomasz Bonkowski, Ludek Hyncik, University of West Bohemia; Wenle Lv, Tianjin University of Science and Technology 2:00 p.m. 2020-01-0935 Micro-Mobility Vehicle Dynamics and Rider Kinematics during Electric Scooter Riding Christina MR Garman, Steven G. Como, Ian C. Campbell, Jeffrey Wishart, Kevin O'Brien, Scott McLean, Exponent Inc. 2:30 p.m. 2020-01-0933 Patient Demographics and Injury Characteristics of ER Visits Related to Powered- Scooters Heather N Watson, Christina MR Garman, Jeffrey Wishart, Jacqueline Zimmermann, Exponent, Inc. The papers in this session are available in SAE Technical Paper Collection, COLL-TP-00669, and also Planned by Occupant Protection Committee / Automobile Body, Chassis, Safety, and Structures Activity Tuesday, April 21 Occupant Protection: Biomechanics Session Code SS501 Room 140 B Session ALL DAY The Biomechanics session presents new research on automotive occupant kinematics, human injury biomechanics, and human tolerance in an automotive environment. This includes new methodologies in the study of human injury, studies of human interaction with occupant protection systems, technological advances in physical and virtual anthropomorphic test devices, and other experimental, analytical and modeling studies on the biomechanics of human injury. Organizers - Kerry Danelson, Wake Forest Univ. School of Medicine; Jacob Fisher, Exponent Inc.; Warren Hardy, Elizabeth McNeil, Virginia Tech. Time Paper No. Title 9:30 a.m. 2020-01-0518 Accident Statistical Distributions from NASS CDS - An Update Jennifer L. Yaek, Thomas Brown, Exponent Inc.; Alan Goertz, SURVICE Engineering Co. 10:30 a.m. 2020-01-0520 Characterization of Thoracic Spinal Development by Age and Sex with a Focus on Occupant Safety Chantal Parenteau, Exponent Inc.; Michelle Caird, Carla Kohoyda-Inglis, Sven Holcombe, Stewart Wang, University of Michigan Hospital 11:00 a.m. 2020-01-0526 Likelihood of Spinal Disc Herniations in Occupants Involved in Real World Side Impacts Tack Lam; B. Johan Ivarsson, Biomechanics Scientific LLC 12:00 p.m. BREAK 2:00 p.m. 2020-01-0528 Biofidelity of THOR 5th Percentile Female ATD in Ankle Eversion and Inversion Shubham Kulkarni, Carolyn Roberts, Patrick Foltz, Jason Forman, University of Virginia WCX SAE World Congress Experience Technical Session Schedule As of April 27, 2020 19:40:14 PM Time Paper No. Title 2:30 p.m. 2020-01-0522 Responses of the THOR in Oblique Sled Impacts: Focus on Chest Deflection Raed E. El-Jawahri, Kevin Siasoco, Rich Ruthinowski, Robert W. McCoy, Zhenyan Gao, Dean Jaradi, Ford Motor Company 3:00 p.m. ORAL ONLY Technical Keynote To Be Announced The papers in this session are available in SAE Technical Paper Collection, COLL-TP-00669, SUB-TP- Planned by Occupant Protection Committee / Automobile Body, Chassis, Safety, and Structures Activity Tuesday, April 21 Motorsports Engineering Session Code MSEC100 Room 140 C Session 9:30 a.m. This session focusses on the links between motorsports, the mainstream automotive industry and academia. As such, it is the forum at the WCX where ideas and knowledge involving motorsports can be exchanged between the three communities. This exchange will be accomplished by the use of featured speakers from motorsports, and presentations, both written and oral, of topics deemed to be of relevant interest to the motorsports community in general, and to students and faculty involved in engineering education. Organizers - Gregory Fadler, FCA; Raymond Leto, TotalSim LLC; Wiley McCoy, McLaren Performance Technologies; Michael Royce; H. Robert (Bob) Welge, Robert's Engineering Development Time Paper No. Title 9:30 a.m. ORAL ONLY Keynote Presentation To be Announced 10:00 a.m. 2020-01-0543 Optimizing Gear Ratio Selection for Lap Performance Robert Frederick, Univ. of Alabama; Brandon Dixon, University of Alabama 10:30 a.m. 2020-01-0544 Formula SAE Data Acquisition and Detailed Analysis of a Lap Connor M. Ashford, Aniruddha Mitra, Georgia Southern University 11:00 a.m. 2020-01-0545 Strategy for Optimizing an F1 Car’s Performance Based on FIA Regulations Karan Bopaiah, Stephen Samuel, Oxford Brookes University 11:30 a.m. 2020-01-0546 Investigation of the Effect of Tire Deformation on Open-Wheel Aerodynamics Philipp Eder, Graz University of Technology; Thomas Gerstorfer, U.A.S. Graz; Cornelia Lex, Graz University of Technology; Thomas Amhofer, U.A.S. Graz WCX SAE World Congress Experience Technical Session Schedule As of April 27, 2020 19:40:14 PM Planned by Motorsports Engineering Committee / Motorsports Engineering Activity Tuesday, April 21 Occupant Protection: Accident Reconstruction (Part 1 of 2) Session Code SS500 Room 140 C Session 1:00 p.m. This session focuses on the latest research related to methods and techniques for reconstructing vehicular crashes involving wheeled and tracked vehicles, pedestrians, and roadside features. Emphasis is placed on experimental data and theoretical methods that will enable reconstructionists to identify, interpret and analyze physical evidence from vehicular crashes. Organizers - Christopher Armstrong, Mecanica Scientific Svcs Corp.; Alan Asay, Asay Engineering; Dean Beaumont, TRL; Jarrod Carter, Origin Forensics LLC; Neal Carter, Kineticorp LLC; Edward Fatzinger, Momentum Engineering Corp. Time Paper No. Title 1:00 p.m. 2020-01-0639 Sensitivity Analysis of Various Vehicle Dynamic Simulation Software Packages Using Design of Experiments (DOE) R. Matthew Brach, Emmanuel Jay Manuel, Robert Bailey, Joshua Rogers, Shawn P. Capser, Engineering Systems Inc. 1:30 p.m. 2020-01-0640 Calculating Vehicle Side Structure Stiffness from Crash Test Data: Effects of Impactor Characteristics Donald E. Struble; John D. Struble, Exponent Inc. 2:00 p.m. 2020-01-0641 Methods for Quantifying the Impact Severity of Low-Speed Side Impacts at Varying Angles Justin Brink, Scott Swinford, American Bio Engineers; Christopher Furbish, Biomechanical Research & Testing; Brian Jones, American Bio Engineers; Judson Welcher, Biomechanical Research & Testing; Robert Anderson, Biomechanics Analysis 2:30 p.m. 2020-01-0642 SUV Kinematics during a Steer-Induced Rollover Resolved Using Consumer-Grade Video, Laser Scans and Match-Moving Techniques Cole R. Young, David J. King, Gunter P. Siegmund, MEA Forensic Engineers & Scientists 3:00 p.m. 2020-01-0643 Determination of Seatbelt Use Following a Crash John R. Yannaccone, DJS Associates The papers in this session are available in SAE Technical Paper Collection, COLL-TP-00668 and SUB- Planned by Occupant Protection Committee / Automobile Body, Chassis,
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