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Award-winning Bachelor

2022-09-16T08:51:44.238Z


Award-winning Bachelor Created: 09/16/2022, 10:44 am By: Susanne Greiner The award winner Michael Ostermaier with crash test dummies in the Landsberg ADAC Technik Zentrum. © ADAC/I. Ostermaier District – The second sponsorship prize 2022 of the German Traffic Safety Council (DVR), endowed with 2,500 euros, goes to Landsberg. Michael Ostermaier carried out an "investigation of the effective pot


Award-winning Bachelor

Created: 09/16/2022, 10:44 am

By: Susanne Greiner

The award winner Michael Ostermaier with crash test dummies in the Landsberg ADAC Technik Zentrum.

© ADAC/I.

Ostermaier

District – The second sponsorship prize 2022 of the German Traffic Safety Council (DVR), endowed with 2,500 euros, goes to Landsberg.

Michael Ostermaier carried out an "investigation of the effective potential of restraint systems for car occupants with regard to age, gender and body proportions" at the ADAC Technik Zentrum in Landsberg.

This bachelor's thesis was recognized by the DVR as an outstanding thesis on the subject of "road safety".

The DVR offered the sponsorship prize together with the Friedrich Schiller University Jena as well as the accident insurance companies and professional associations.

According to the ADAC in a press release, the decisive factor was that the work “delivered concrete points of contact as to how road safety can be improved in practice”.

The winner is the brother of Isabella Ostermaier, who works as an engineer for vehicle safety at the ADAC Technik Zentrum Landsberg.

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Ostermaier's award-winning bachelor's thesis examines how restraint systems affect different occupants in a frontal collision and to what extent the severity of injuries can be reduced using adaptive restraint systems.

Based on an evaluation of the ADAC accident database, Ostermaier identified risk groups in terms of occupant gender, age, weight and size.

Their injury risk and pattern was then analyzed using experiments.

Here, dummies represented the physical characteristics of the occupants as an abstraction of the human being.

According to Ostermaier's bachelor's thesis, a higher probability of injury was found in older, taller and heavier vehicle occupants.


According to the ADAC, the starting point for Ostermaier's work was that, according to studies from the USA, women have a higher risk of injury than men.

The reason given was that a male of gender average height is most commonly used in crash tests to verify vehicle safety.

"We took this as an opportunity and, with the help of our database and sled tests, investigated whether this is true and whether there are other groups in the population who are more at risk," says Ostermaier.

Source: merkur

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