Crash Injury Research

In injury mechanics (trauma biomechanics) and accident research, we develop accident data and human body models for scientific, industrial and forensic applications.

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Computational Injury Mechanics
Accident Analysis
Engineering Anthropometry
Forensic Biomechanics

Projects

Computational Injury Mechanics

We develop and validate numerical models of the human body for analysing injury risks and injury-related processes. These are mainly finite element models for crash simulation.

Publications

Raúl Aranda-Marco, Steffen Peldschus. Virtual Assessment of a Representative Torso Airbag under the Fall from Height Impact Conditions, Safety (2023), DOI:10.3390/safety9030053
Laura Rieger, Julia Mühlbauer, Steffen Peldschus. Eine 3D-Analyse der Wirbelsäule in unterschiedlichen Rückenlehnenneigungen und Untersuchung des Effekts auf Insassenkinematik im Frontcrash unter Nutzung eines THUMS Menschmodells, 13. VDI Fahrzeugsicherheit, Berlin, 2022.
Dustin Draper, Alok Shah, Steffen Peldschus, Brian D. Stemper. Initial Validation of a Human Body Model Lumbar Spine using Dynamic Compression, IRCOBI 2020, IRC-20-28
Raúl Aranda-Marco, Wei Wei, Thierry Serre, Pablo Sánchez, Enric Soriano, Steffen Peldschus. Limitations of the Standard Test Procedure for Assessing the Protection of Motorcyclist Airbag Jackets in a Realistic Impact Scenario, IRCOBI 2020, IRC-20-44

Accident recording on site - GIDAS Munich

Accident Analysis

We investigate injuries and fatal accidents from all areas of life and work, such as road traffic, sport, the workplace and falls. In a working group with Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences and LMU Clinic, we collect data on road traffic accidents on site as part of GIDAS project (see link below). We analyse injury data and traces on vehicles and their surroundings with the aim of reconstructing causes of accidents and injuries.

GIDAS Accident Analysis Munich

Publications

Schick, S., Bauer, K., Rahm, L., Wisch, M., Zander, O., Peldschus, S., Upper-body injuries in bicyclists caused by the car front, International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Impact, IRCOBI 2022, IRC-22-25
Schick, S., Bauer, K., Wisch, M., Zander, O., Peldschus, S., Upper-body injuries in pedestrians hit by the car front, International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Impact, IRCOBI 2021, IRC-21-95
Schick, S., Piantini, S., Wisch, M., Brown, J., Defining Body Regions by AIS© for categorizing injuries of Powered-Two-Wheelers, International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Impact, IRCOBI 2019, IRC-19-72
Bauer K., Thalhammer A., Symeonidis I., Schick S., Aranda R., Weber S., Peldschus S. Virtual assessment of protective systems for motorcyclists based on real world accident data. 12th International Motorcycle Conference, Köln, 2018

Engineering Anthropometry

We collect data to measure the human body on the basis of medical imaging. We investigate the behaviour of the body under low-level loads as part of volunteer tests. Both are used in the development of numerical human models.

Publications

González-García M, Peldschus S, Weber J, Persohn S, Sandoz B. Influence of the surrounding environment on the response of seated midsize male volunteers subjected to lateral sled accelerations. J Biomech. 2024 Dec;177:112382. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2024.112382. Epub 2024 Oct 23. PMID: 39486382.
González-García, M., Siebler, L., Muehlbauer, J., Schick, S., Peldschus, S., Weber, J. (2023): Kinematic response of seated male volunteers in various reclined postures on a sled subjected to a braking pulse. In: Accident; analysis and prevention 193, S. 107293. DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2023.107293.
David Hauptstein, Lea Siebler, Julia Muehlbauer, Sylvia Schick, Sarah Thaler, Simon T. Schaefer, Steffen Peldschus. Analysis of Boundary Conditions in Locally Focused Passive Validation Experiments for Human Body Models, IRCOBI conference 2022, Porto, Portugal 2022, IRC-22-31.
Daniel Hanesch, Julia Mühlbauer, Elke C. Sattler, Nicholas Möllhoff, Riccardo E. Giunta, Steffen Peldschus, Sylvia Schick. Pelvic Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Thickness Ana Outer Shape Change With Position For Numerical Modeling.

Forensic Biomechanics

We investigate the relationships between the effects of accidents and violence on the human body and the resulting consequences of injury (injury mechanisms). Our methods are used to clarify legal issues in forensic medicine, accident analysis and biomechanics.

Publications

Felicitas Lanzl, Fabian Duddeck, Saskia Willuweit, Steffen Peldschus. Experimental characterisation of porcine subcutaneous adipose tissue under blunt impact up to irreversible deformation, International Journal of Legal Medicine (2021), DOI: 10.1007/s00414-021-02755-0
Brodbeck, K., Schick, S., Bayer, B., Anslinger, K., Krüger, K., Mayer, Z., ... & Peldschus, S. (2020). Biological variability of cell-free DNA in healthy females at rest within a short time course. International Journal of Legal Medicine, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-019-02240-9
K Brodbeck, S Kern, S Schick, A Steinbrück, M Schwerer, B Bayer, K Anslinger, S Peldschus, Quantitative analysis of individual cell-free DNA concentration before and after penetrating trauma, International Journal of Legal Medicine (2019), Volume 133, Issue 2, pp 385–393 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-018-1945-y
S Schick, D Heinrich, M Graw, R Aranda, U Ferrari, S Peldschus, Fatal falls in the elderly and the presence of proximal femur fractures, International Journal of Legal Medicine (2018), Volume 132, Issue 6, pp 1699–1712 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-018-1876-7