26TH DAAAM INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INTELLIGENT MANUFACTURING AND AUTOMATION THE INFLUENCE OF THE FRONTAL PROFILE DESIGN OF A VEHICLE UPON THE PEDESTRIAN SAFETY AT LOW VELOCITY Bogdan Tolea a , Daniel Trusca a , Csaba Antonya a , Horia Beles b a University Transilvania of Brasov, Bdul. Eroilor 29, Brasov, 500036, Romania b University of Oradea, Str. Universitatii, 1, Oradea 410087, Romania Abstract The objective of this paper is to determine the influence of the frontal profile design of a vehicle upon the pedestrian safety and to assess the pedestrian’s injury severity. In order to achieve this objective two crash -tests were performed, using two vehicles with different frontal profile designs and a crash test dummy, meant to simulate the pedestrian behavior. In the head of the crash test dummy a tri-axial accelerometer was mounted in order to measure the head accelerations during the collision. Obtaining the acceleration values, it is possible to assess the risk of the skull fractures, by calculating HIC (Head Injury Criteria) values. Keywords: bumper location, collision, crash-test, frontal profile, pedestrian, HIC This Publication has to be referred as: Tolea, B[ogdan]; Trusca, D[aniel]; Antonya, C[saba] & Beles, H[oria] (2016). The Influence of the Frontal Profile Design of a Vehicle upon the Pedestrian Safety at Low Velocity, Proceedings of the 26th DAAAM International Symposium, pp.1052-1058, B. Katalinic (Ed.), Published by DAAAM International, ISBN 978-3-902734-07-5, ISSN 1726-9679, Vienna, Austria DOI: 10.2507/26th.daaam.proceedings.148 - 1052 -