Research Article
Presenting potential injury risk by biomechanical simulation based on bodygraphic injury data
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8732, author={Yoshinori Koizumi and Yoshifumi Nishida and Yoichi Motomura and Yusuke Miyazaki and Hiroshi Mizoguchi}, title={Presenting potential injury risk by biomechanical simulation based on bodygraphic injury data}, proceedings={3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques}, publisher={ICST}, proceedings_a={SIMUTOOLS}, year={2010}, month={5}, keywords={Hazard identification Injury prevention Injury surveillance Impact biomechanics Injury informatics}, doi={10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8732} }- Yoshinori Koizumi
Yoshifumi Nishida
Yoichi Motomura
Yusuke Miyazaki
Hiroshi Mizoguchi
Year: 2010
Presenting potential injury risk by biomechanical simulation based on bodygraphic injury data
SIMUTOOLS
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8732
Abstract
Injury prevention is one of the most important and urgent issues in children’s health since the primary cause of death of children is unintentional injury. Injury prevention requires making safe products as well as safe environments by evaluating the risks. This paper proposes a system for presenting and evaluating potential risk of injury by using a biomechanical simulation based on bodygraphic injury data collected in hospitals. To prove the effectiveness of the proposed system, this paper describes the application of the system to the risk analysis of a playground swing in a park. The potential risk of head injury around the swing equipment was calculated by using a physical simulator consisting of a multi-body model, a finite element model of a child’s head, and an injury database.
