Assessment of Abdominal and Skeletal loadings and Kinematics during Frontal Impacts through a Novel Tool for HBM Variants Generation Based on the Occupant’s BMI

HBM variant generation tools are solely based on morphing techniques to adjust the shape of the external surface to a target depending on the BMI of interest. Even though this approach can quickly produce HBM variants, downgrades the model’s mesh by stretching the elements and compromising their quality. Furthermore, the dependence of the abdominal organs morphology on the occupant’s BMI is rarely, taken into account. This paper presents a novel tool for automatic HBM variant generation, that respects elements’ quality taking also into account the volume of the abdominal organs.