Abstract
The paper gives an overview of the specific features of anthropometric characteristics of humans – pedestrians in case of car accidents involving pedestrians and cars. Here, special attention has been paid to the configuration of the human body while moving, which is in turn related to the initial conditions of a collision. Special part of biomechanics in humans refers to their moving, where human’s walk has a specific posture as a mechanical phenomenon. Based on the carried out analysis the need has been observed for a classification of anthropologic variables by means of which the dynamic inertia moments of a walking human can be calculated, as well as the human, who hit by a car in a traffic accident flies along a production curvilinear path. With the development of ergonomics, and the accompanying increased application of anthropometry, the static anthropometry was abandoned, since the humans are considered highly variable in their dimensions, which is extremely importantfor the dynamic analysis of the human body posture in the collision process.
Highlights
Application of mechanics on the living systems, including humans is an area of mechanics that is called biomechanics
A special case of biomechanics of humans refers to their movement, where human walk has a specific position as a mechanical phenomenon
In available domestic and foreign literature which refers to the study of the traffic accident problems, usually the movements of pedestrians are calculated according to the calculations of energy and work that are generated in the impact process between the solid body and the pedestrian [12]
Summary
Application of mechanics on the living systems, including humans is an area of mechanics that is called biomechanics. In available domestic and foreign literature which refers to the study of the traffic accident problems, usually the movements of pedestrians (walk and being thrown-off) are calculated according to the calculations of energy and work that are generated in the impact process between the solid body (vehicle) and the pedestrian [12] In this way the pedestrian is considered in a very simplified manner as a particle of mass m which collides with the vehicle, a particle but of mass M. This fact refers to further studies from which for certain positions of arms the dynamic moments of inertia could be determined taking into consideration those muscle masses that participate in the realisation of the movement at that moment
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