TRL’s work is focused in three areas: injury risk, biofidelity, and multi-point chest deflection measurement. With respect to injury risk and biofidelity, TRL is working closely with the ISO group. The programme is looking at Post Mortem Human Subjects (PMHSs) testing and comparing it to sled tests to see which PMHS align with the force plates in the same way. They are also reviewing the scaling methods to apply PMHS data to the dummy. Additionally, they will be performing biofidelity and/or injury risk tests to fill information gaps identified by ISO.

TRL also looked into installing RibEye into the 5th female to have multi-point sensing of the thorax deflection, but cited major problems technically and financially. The group felt it was important to install RibEye into the 5th female dummy to fully understand the biofidelity responses of the dummy and to help interpret the information recorded from the 1D- and 2D-IR-TRACC systems. Humanetics would provide a quote for the cost to develop a RibEye for the 5th Female. NHTSA and the European Commission are considering funding the development/purchase of the system for the 5th female. MCW offered to perform testing with the RibEye system and to determine if an algorithm could be developed to correlate the 2D-IR-TRACC system results with the RibEye results.