The European Society of Biomechanics

ISN & COVER Workshop on Biomechanical experiments with human subjects

Hannover, Germany, September 14, 2010

ISN & COVER Workshop on Biomechanical experiments
with human subjects

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Workshop on Biomechanics experiments with human subjects will be held in
Hannover, Germany, September 14, 2010. This Workshop has been scheduled on the
day before the IRCOBI Conference on behalf of the Integrated Safety Network (ISN)1 and
the COVER2 Coordination and Support Action.
The purpose of the Workshop is to provide a forum for exchange and discussion as well
as the presentation of current experimental biomechanics research using human
volunteers or Post Mortem Human Subjects in the field of passive safety or impact
biomechanics.
Topics should be related to recent innovations or experiences in human volunteer or
surrogate testing, such as innovative test methodology or new sensors. Papers on
computational simulations or dummy testing are acceptable, but must be linked with
human testing.
Any topic related to trauma biomechanics and prevention is welcome. Suggested areas of
interest include restraint systems induced trauma, constitutive responses of biological
tissue, inner organs behaviours, human response and tolerance to impact, pre-crash
behaviour and children biomechanics and injury. Areas of interest for the workshop
include vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians, cyclists, human behaviour in the precrash
phase and also adaptive restraint systems.
Open participation is strongly encouraged to facilitate information exchange and to help
solve problems associated with human testing in impact biomechanics.
A half day session of the workshop will be dedicated to present and discuss results of two
EU FP7 projects THORAX and THOMO. Both are dealing with thoracic injuries. Results on
accident investigations, PMHS testing and Human Body modelling collected during the
first two years of these projects will be presented by participants.
If you wish to make a presentation, please submit a Title and Abstract (one A4 page) on
or before 30th June, 2010 to:

Philippe Vezin - INRETS/LBMC
25 Avenue François Mitterrand, 69675 Bron cedex
Phone (33) 4 72 14 23 79
Fax (33) 4 72 14 23 60
e-mail : philippe.vezin@inrets.fr

Abstracts may be submitted via e-mail. Full papers will be due at the Workshop and
included in the proceedings.
Registration : see IRCOBI registration form
Participation fee : 100 euros (free for ISN members up to 2 people per organization)
Further information on the IRCOBI website www.ircobi.org or ESAR website
www.esar-hannover.de
1 ISN is an association created in March 2008 to continue on a self sustained basis the activities of the network of
excellence APSN (info@integratedsafetynetwork.org)
2 COVER is a Coordination and Support Action running under the 7th Framework. It brings together four
projects in the field of Biomechanics for vehicle occupant safety namely THORAX, THOMO, CASPER and
EPOCh. The former two are dealing with thoracic injuries, developing test and simulation tools related to this
body region. The latter two deal with child safety. See: http://www.biomechanics-coordination.eu/