3D Model Developed to Increase Car Safety Wins the Materialise Mimics Innovation Award

The 2015 winner of the Materialise Mimics Innovation Award for “Best Article Award: North & South America” went to Dr. Jingwen Hu for his paper on using the Materialise Mimics software to develop a 3D model that could revolutionize automobile safety. The paper, titled “Developing Parametric Human Models Representing Various Vulnerable Populations in Motor Vehicle Crashes,” outlines the limitations and shortcomings of existing car safety tests and develops a model to improve them. The crash test dummies currently used by the automobile industry are generally made in only a few sizes: a large adult male, a mid-sized adult male and a small female. These limited varieties of body shapes do not take into consideration the wildly diverse body types typically found throughout the world's population. Using the new 3D model developed by Hu and his team, car manufacturers can use car crash and car safety test datasets and compare them to a limitless variety of potential users. You can read more over at 3DPrint.com: http://3dprint.com/127405/materialis...cs-car-safety/