Dummy databases for MADYMO 5.2 and future developments

Together with MADYMO 5.2 new databases are released of the 5th percentile and 95th percentile Hybrid III dummies, the BioSID dummy, the TNO P6 dummy, the EEVC adult and child headforms. The Eurosid-1 dummy database has been thoroughly revised as well as the TNO P3 child dummy database. Besides rigid-body modelling techniques and enhanced finite element functionality, MADYMO 5.2 offers flexible bodies and facet surfaces. The 'hybrid modelling strategy' combining different modelling techniques in one database is used to keep databases as simple and efficient as possible. CPU intensive techniques like finite elements are only used when they are needed to obtain the required accuracy. Finite elements are now applied in released hybrid databases of the BioSID dummy and of pedestrian subsystems. Ongoing research has demonstrated that flexible bodies and facet surfaces are very promising for dummy modelling; the combine advantages of finite elements with the limited CPU of multibody techniques