Abstract
The powered two-wheeler (PTW) accidents have usually critical consequences. The goal of the presented work is to make the use of PTWs safer by contribution to minimizing consequences of the rider injuries, when an accident occurs. The work focuses on the exploitation of two main accident reconstruction approaches (forward and backward) by combining them together (forward-backward approach). The work also exploits the simulation of the combined multibody system (MBS) with the finite element method (FEM) to obtain a detailed analysis in a reasonable computational time. The applied combined forward-backward approach enables to find the cause and affects the relationship between the outcome injuries of the rider and the states of the system, which occurred between the pre- and post-crash phases by assessing the injury criteria implementing a scalable hybrid human body model. The work shall further serve as a study for a personal protective equipment optimization.