THOR Advanced Crash Test Dummy(Edited for week 10)

Hello all...

How are you today??? Hope u all always in healthy condition and happy. Today, when I busy 'google'ing and 'facebook'ing, accidentally, I have found something that great to share. It's about the newest dummy. Yeah, once be dummy always be dummy. But this dummy sure worthy to be shattered because it is important subject in vehicle crashing test. Err...do you understand what I'm trying to say?? Sorry, I think my English sometime broke itself :D

So, back to the dummies subject, this dummy is called THOR. THOR is adapted from some myth of Germany if I not Mistaken. It is characterize as hammer wielding 'god', associated with, thunder, storm, lightning, bla bla bla and lastly, protection of mankind( i think this reason why THOR is named ). THOR is invented by National Highway Traffic Safety Adminstration (NHTSA). It has been designed to assist the development and the evaluation of advanced vehicle occupant safety systems, and incorporates significantly improved biofidelity and greatly expanded injury assessment capabilities in all body regions. It is designed specifically for use in frontal and oblique crash environments, and the design also offers multi-directional capabilities of crash environment.

As an integral part of the THOR development program, the NHTSA has actively involved the participation of worldwide automotive manufacturers, research organizations, and government agencies in extensive test and evaluation trials. Through the generosity and cooperative efforts of expert individuals and institutions in North America, Japan, Europe, and Australia, many useful refinements have been identified and incorporated into the current THOR Alpha version

Wow...that THOR is great, so what about its look like?

Yeah, this is THOR Alpha. Handsome right?? lol...

So, what about capabilities of this THOR Alpha??

THOR Alpha offers numerous functional benefits as compared with previously existing crash test dummy technology:

• Assistance in optimization of "smart" occupant restraint systems, including setting of air bag deployment thresholds and design of integrated advanced belt/ bag restraint systems;
• Improved assessment of belt/ bag interactions;
• Improved head kinematics, as a result of new neck and spine designs;
• Improved neck injury assessment, including out-of-position injury assessment;
• More realistic spinal kinematics, as a result of added spine flexibility;
• Facility for assessment of seated posture effects upon restraint performance;
• Detection of air bag, belt, and wheel rim interaction with the abdomen;
• Facility for injury assessment at the hip joint;
• Detailed assessment of foot motions and ankle/foot/tibia injury potential;
• Facility for localized facial injury assessment
  
  
  
  THOR Alpha assembly