Occurrence of Serious Injury in Real-World Side Impacts of Vehicles with Good Side-Impact Protection Ratings

Objective: The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) introduced its side impact consumer information test program in 2003. Since that time, side airbags and structural improvements have been implemented across the fleet and the proportion of good ratings has increased to 93% of 2012–2014 model year vehicles. Research has shown that drivers of good-rated vehicles are 70% less likely to die in a left-side crash than drivers of poor-rated vehicles. Despite these improvements, side impact fatalities accounted for about one quarter of passenger vehicle occupant fatalities in 2012. This study is a detailed analysis of real-world cases with serious injury resulting from side crashes of vehicles with good ratings in the IIHS side impact test.

Methods: NASS-CDS and Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN) were queried for occupants of good-rated vehicles who sustained an Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) ≥ 3 injury in a side-impact crash. The resulting 110 cases were categorized by impact configuration and other factors that contributed to injury. Patterns of impact configuration, restraint performance, and occupant injury were identified and discussed in the context of potential upgrades to the current IIHS side impact test.

Results: Three quarters of the injured occupants were involved in near-side impacts. For these occupants, the most common factors contributing to injury were crash severities greater than the IIHS test, inadequate side-airbag performance, and lack of side-airbag coverage for the injured body region. In the cases where an airbag was present but did not prevent the injury, occupants were often exposed to loading centered farther forward on the vehicle than in the IIHS test. Around 40% of the far-side occupants were injured from contact with the struck-side interior structure, and almost all of these cases were more severe than the IIHS test. The remaining far-side occupants were mostly elderly and sustained injury from the center console, instrument panel, or seat belt. In addition, many far-side occupants were likely out of position due to events preceding the side impact and/or being unbelted.

Conclusion: Individual changes to the IIHS side impact test have the potential to reduce the number of serious injuries in real-world crashes. These include impacting the vehicle farther forward (relevant to 28% of all cases studied), greater test severity (17%), the inclusion of far-side occupants (9%), and more restrictive injury criteria (9%). Combinations of these changes could be more effective.     

Census Study of Real-Life Near-Side Crashes with Modern Side Airbag-Equipped Vehicles in the United States

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the crash characteristics, injury distribution, and injury mechanisms for Maximum Abbreviated Injury Score (MAIS) 2+ injured belted, near-side occupants in airbag-equipped modern vehicles. Furthermore, differences in injury distribution for senior occupants compared to non-senior occupants was investigated, as well as whether the near-side occupant injury risk to the head and thorax increases or decreases with a neighboring occupant.

Method: National Automotive Sampling System's Crashworthiness Data System (NASS-CDS) data from 2000 to 2012 were searched for all side impacts (GAD L&R, all principal direction of force) for belted occupants in modern vehicles (model year > 1999). Rollovers were excluded, and only front seat occupants over the age of 10 were included. Twelve thousand three hundred fifty-four MAIS 2+ injured occupants seated adjacent to the intruding structure (near-side) and protected by at least one deployed side airbag were studied. To evaluate the injury risk influenced by the neighboring occupant, odds ratio with an induced exposure approach was used.

Result: The most typical crash occurred either at an intersection or in a left turn where the striking vehicle impacted the target vehicle at a 60 to 70° angle, resulting in a moderate change of velocity (delta-V) and intrusion at the B-pillar. The head, thorax, and pelvis were the most frequent body regions with rib fracture the most frequent specific injury. A majority of the head injuries included brain injuries without skull fracture, and non-senior rather than senior occupants had a higher frequency of head injuries on the whole. In approximately 50% of the cases there was a neighboring occupant influencing injury outcome.

Conclusion: Compared to non-senior occupants, the senior occupants sustained a considerably higher rate of thoracic and pelvis injuries, which should be addressed by improved thorax side airbag protection. The influence on near-side occupant injury risk by the neighboring occupant should also be further evaluated. Furthermore, side airbag performance and injury assessments in intersection crashes, especially those involving senior occupants in lower severities, should be further investigated and side impact dummy biofidelity and injury criteria must be determined for these crash scenarios.     

三峡库区次级河流中有机锡污染物浓度及形态分布规律

以三峡库区次级河流大宁河和小江回水区为研究区域,于2013年5月采集地表水样,采用固相微萃取-气相色谱-质谱(SPME-GC-MS)方法测定水样中丁基锡和苯基锡浓度,分析该时期库区支流水环境中有机锡污染情况.研究结果表明:该时期大宁河和小江表层水体同时检测到内分泌干扰物三丁基锡(TBT)、三苯基锡(TPh T)及它们的降解产物一丁基锡(MBT)、二丁基锡(DBT)和一苯基锡(MPh T)、二苯基锡(DPh T).大宁河和小江苯基锡污染均以MPh T为主,但大宁河丁基锡污染以MBT为主,小江丁基锡污染以MBT和DBT为主.除大昌监测点有新近的TBT输入外,大宁河和小江水体中的TBT和TPh T输入均有一段时间,且发生了明显的降解.     

A Heat Dynamic Model for Intelligent Heating of Buildings

This article presents a heat dynamic model for prediction of the indoor temperature in an office building. The model has been used in several flexible load applications, where the indoor temperature is allowed to vary around a given reference to provide power system services by shifting the heating of the building in time. This way the thermal mass of the building can be used to absorb energy from renewable energy source when available and postpone heating in periods with lack of renewable energy generation. The model is used in a model predictive controller to ensure the residential comfort over a given prediction horizon.     

三峡库区消落带土壤中溶解性有机质(DOM)吸收及荧光光谱特征

利用紫外-可见吸收光谱和三维荧光光谱技术,结合荧光区域积分法,分析了三峡库区消落带土壤DOM的地化特征.结果表明,各区县消落带土壤CDOM平均浓度大小顺序为:忠县丰都涪陵万州巫山云阳奉节开县,其中,忠县、丰都和涪陵土壤CDOM浓度[a(355)]、芳香性(SUVA254)和疏水组分(SUVA260)明显高于其它区县,而其腐殖化程度(HIX)均低于其它区县.三峡库区消落带土壤DOM中含有类腐殖质荧光团A、C、M和类色氨酸荧光团T,其中紫外区类腐殖质荧光团A的荧光区域积分比例最大.另外,类色氨酸荧光团T与a(355)呈极显著相关(r=0.674,P0.01),影响CDOM浓度变化的主要因素是类蛋白荧光峰T.3D-EEM总荧光强度(TOT)可作为表征三峡库区消落带土壤CDOM荧光团浓度的指标.消落带土壤DOM腐殖化程度较低,生物可利用性较高.另外,消落带干湿交替作用对不同高程土壤DOM地化特征影响的差异较小,这可能与当地农业活动、沿岸植物生长以及DOM矿化过程有关.     

三峡库区局地气候变化

三峡库区地处鄂西和渝东的崇山峻岭中，局地气候受山谷和水体的共同影响，冬暖夏热，降水丰富。利用三峡库区及其周边地区33个气象观测站1961~2006年降水与温度观测资料，对2003年蓄水前后的降水、气温等要素作了时间对比分析，同时分别选取近库区和远库区站点作降水比值和温度差值分析，结果表明近几年库区降水较常年偏少，但降水趋势与西南地区降水年代际变化一致。20世纪90年代之后三峡库区气温有显著上升趋势，蓄水后受水域扩大影响近库地区的气温发生了一定变化，表现出冬季增温效应，夏季有弱降温效应，但总体以增温为主。由于三峡工程局地气候影响是一个复杂、长期的气候调节过程，所给出的结果只是三峡水库蓄水至今3年时间的观测分析结果，同时蓄水前后温度变化还需要更长时间观测分析统计，对水库水域扩大影响造成的局地气候效应有待更多研究方法及模式结果的验证。     

浅论"以新带老"在技改扩建项目环境影响评价中的运用

以氮肥厂为例,提出对以新带老在环境影响评价中的一些认识,并提供如何在化工类技改扩建项目环境影响评价中开展以新带老的方法和思路.     

进一步保持和发扬我党的“真正优势”

本文在全面论述邓小平同志关于“共同的理想”和“铁的纪律”是我党“真正优势”光辉论断的基础上，指出目前我们在保持和发扬“真正优势”方面存在的不足，并认为中国共产党要顺利解决“两大历史性课题”，必须进一步保持和发扬自己的“真正优势”。     

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在分析“三软”煤层封孔特性的基础上 ,选择了合适的封孔方法 ,试验研究了Bimbar1型封孔器封孔技术 ,并对封孔器应用中的问题进行了讨论 ,设计了一种与之配套使用的单向自动截止阀 ,成功地实现了“三软”煤层注水封孔 ,可供类似条件的煤层实施该技术参考。     

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