Ford Make Model Of The Human Body Available For The Automotive Consortium

Traffic safety is a major concern for car manufacturers. Therefore, car manufacturers in the group have been formed to continually develop safety devices for their vehicles. One of the newcomers is a group of Ford Motor Company.

Dearborn, the company announced recently that it will share their experience for the group work. Global Human Body Models Consortium, LLC, because the group is called, was born in April last year. The Group's objective is to develop models of the human body, allowing them to design a better life-saving equipment.

Ford joined the group of other car manufacturers. DaimlerChrysler AG. General Motors Corp., Honda Motor Co., Hyundai Motor Co., Nissan Motor Corp., PSA Peugeot-Citroen, Renault sas, Takata Corp., Toyota Motor Corp. and TRW Inc. are the other members of the consortium.

Ford has said they will in the human body model available to the group. For 14 years now, the company has developed computer models of the human body, they used to develop restraint systems for their vehicles, which complements the Ford bumpers designed to absorb most of the energy produced during a frontal collision. The company has developed the most advanced model of the human body by computer showing the bodies of people in microscopic detail.

The above model allows researchers to study how some car accidents affect one person. The complete model of the human body is the most advanced model ever developed by an automaker. The most advanced model is the detailed representation of the human brain and internal organs.

In 1993, the company began the bit in the model. Over the years, the company has created computer models of different body parts. The head, neck, chest, abdomen, thoracic and lumbar spine, internal organs of the chest and abdomen, pelvis and upper and lower extremities were developed from 1993 to 2004.

In 2004, the parties combined to form a human body model detailed and complete. During construction of the model, researchers at Ford have collected data from the texts of human anatomy and MRI. After building the model, researchers at Ford has been validated by testing body. Tests on human volunteers has also been made to ensure that the model takes into account the human body in a very detailed way.

"The human body model are reduced levels of physical testing of components and large scale during vehicle development," said Saeed Barbat, manager of passive safety research and advanced engineering for Ford Motor Company. "It is also used for the development of more complex instruments that could lead to more accidents than human mannequins," said Barbat distance. The most notable feature of the human body model is the model of the details of the spine. The company has managed to create a model with the backbone of all segments of the vertebrae and this cartilage. Apart from that, the detailed model of the human brain also allow researchers to study how a person's head can be damaged by an accident and allowing them to create a device or a safety device to prevent serious brain damage traffic accidents.

The consortium will be able to use the technology developed by Ford to create better restraint systems to further protect motorists. The group has requested research proposals and academic groups around the world electronically. From these proposals, the group plans to select five to be appointed to study the response of different body parts in case of accidents. The group announced the first phase of his plan is the development of six computer models of the human body. Large models, male and female small and medium will be created, to be used in the next phase of his plan. Group projects that the six models were developed in 2011.