Modelling head injury due to unmanned aircraft systems collision: Crash dummy vs human body

Recent developments in the concept of UAS operations in urban areas have led to risk concerns of UAS collision with human. To better understand this risk, head and neck injuries due to UAS collisions have been investigated by different research teams using crash dummies. Because of the limitations in biofidelity of a crash dummy, head injury...

Multibody system modelling of unmanned aircraft system collisions with the human head

Understanding the impact severity of unmanned aircraft system (UAS) collisions with the human body remains a challenge and is essential to the development of safe UAS operations. Complementary to performing experiments of UAS collisions with a crash dummy, a computational impact model is needed in order to capture the large variety of UAS types...

Improving reliability in forensic engineering: the Delft approach

Based on established theories from literature and best practices of forensic investigations in aerospace engineering, civil engineering and biomechanical engineering, the Delft University of Technology has developed a Delft approach<br/>for forensic investigations. This integrated approach consists of three elements. First, because a product has...

A global safety deficiency: False glide slope capture affecting aircraft

A serious incident occurred at Eindhoven Airport (Netherlands) in May 2013. A Boeing 737-800 performed a go-around while using the Instrument Landing System (ILS). The flight crew reported a False Glide Slope capture as the reason for the go-around.<br/>At first the occurrence report did not really gain much attention but when the investigation...