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Automotive Safety Engineering Lab
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A vehicle crash safety lab that uses simulation to explore how to protect people in automobile collisions.
AboutAbout the lab
Working toward "safer cars"
The lab studies automobile collisions and the mechanisms by which people are injured in them.
With the goal of realizing "safer cars," it analyzes the mechanisms of injury in traffic accidents and researches and develops crash safety technologies that prevent injuries.
All of its research uses computer simulation and is carried out in collaboration with external organizations.
In addition to research on protecting occupants and pedestrians, it also analyzes fractures at the top of the femur (hip fractures) that occur in falls.
Key terms
- Crash safety
- The thinking and technology for minimizing injuries to occupants and pedestrians when a car collides in an accident
- Dummy
- A crash test dummy: a doll that imitates the size, weight, and body structure of the human body, placed in a vehicle in place of a person in crash tests
- Femur
- The femur: the longest bone in the human body, running through the thigh
- Optimization
- Choosing design values so as to achieve the best result within given conditions
NewsLab news
An undergraduate student was recognized by the Tokai Branch of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Professor Mizuno, Assistant Professor Zhao, and colleagues received the Prize for Science and Technology (Research Category) in the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, fiscal 2025
An undergraduate student received the Best Presentation Award at the Tokai Student Chapter of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
A master's student received the Young Investigator Excellent Presentation Award at the Bio-Frontier Conference of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Professor Mizuno, Assistant Professor Zhao, and colleagues received the Paper Award at the 74th Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan Awards
ResearchResearch themes
With the goal of realizing "safer cars," the lab studies the analysis of automobile crash characteristics and the protection of occupants and pedestrians. It analyzes the mechanisms by which injuries occur in traffic accidents and researches and develops crash safety technologies that prevent injury. This research is directly tied to automobile design.
*Illustrative imageProtecting Child Occupants
Using computer simulation, the lab investigates how a child's head comes out of the child seat and leads to injury in a side impact. Crash tests have also shown that the head of a child dummy can strike the window glass or door, creating a risk of serious injury.
*Illustrative imageProtecting Pedestrians in Collisions
The lab uses computer simulation to show how a pedestrian moves when hit by a car. It examines how the shape of the vehicle body and the way it deforms cause the human body to deform and lead to injury.
*Illustrative imageProtecting Rear-Seat Occupants
Front seats have seat belts, airbags, and other protection, but it is currently difficult to install airbags in rear seats. To protect rear-seat occupants, the lab optimized the way the vehicle decelerates, which strongly affects injury, and greatly reduced chest acceleration and chest deflection.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Automotive Safety Engineering Lab consist of faculty, administrative staff, and students in the doctoral, master's, and undergraduate programs.As of 2026
- ProfessorKoji Mizuno
- Assistant ProfessorYuqing Zhao
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Crash-test simulation ( )” Matt Howard / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Protecting Child Occupants: “Modern child car seat closeup” Shixart1985 / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Protecting Pedestrians in Collisions: “Female Crash Test Dummy - THOR 5th” Lin Pan / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Protecting Rear-Seat Occupants: “V07168P009” MGA Research Corporation, NHTSA, Alpha Technology Associates Inc. / Public domain (cropped)
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