THUMS USA Users' Meeting

11. Juni 2014, Dearborn, Michigan, USA

11. Juni 2014, Dearborn, Michigan, USA

The 2014 THUMS USA Users' Meeting, organized by JSOL, was held on June 11 after The 13th US & International LS-DYNA Users Conference.

Program

Time title
10:00 Opening
10:10 History of THUMS developemnt and its enhancement plan in near future
Mr. Tsuyoshi Yasuki, Toyota Motor Corporation
10:40 Injury Investigation for High Speed Racing using THUMS
Mr. Robert D. Smith , Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America,Inc. - TTC
11:10 Future Opportunities in combining Pre Crash and Post-crash analysis with THUMS
Mr. Chuck Gulash, Toyota Technical Center (TTC), the North American R&D division of Toyota Motor Corporation
11:40 Lunch
12:55 Simulation based THUMS positioning on JSD (JSOL Seat Designer)
Dr. Noriyo Ichinose, JSOL Corporation
13:25 Multi-metric evaluation of THUMS in frontal and side impacts
Dr. Damien Subit, University of Virginia
13:55 THUMSv4 Injury Metric Development and Crash Simulation Variation Injury Investigation
Mr. James Gaewsky, Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University
14:25 Parameterize THUMS to Represent Various Vulnerable Populations - A Feasibility Study
Dr. Jingwen Hu, University of Michigan
14:55 Closing address

Please find more information about the conference here.