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The number of the collision accidents between Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and people on the ground increase in recent years. It is necessary to clarify human injury characteristics brought by the impact of UAV and promote its management. This study focuses on head and neck injury risk resulted from the impact of the UAV with a relatively large mass, and the difference brought by the UAV with a small mass. First, the model of the Y3-dummy (Hybrid III 50th) is developed. Second, simulations are conducted to analyse head and neck injury characteristics from Y3's impact under different velocities, angles, and locations. With increasing the impact velocity, HIC and Nij increase with an exponential function and a power function, respectively. When the vertical impact velocity exceeds 5 m/s, both head and neck have a high probability of injury, while for the horizontal impact, the corresponding velocity is 9 m/s. As the impact angle increases, the changes of HIC satisfy the form of the sum of two exponential functions, and Nij changes in the form of the sum of a power function and a quadratic polynomial function. When the impact angle is close to 0°, the head injury risk is relatively high, while for 58°, the neck is more likely to be injury. The injuries induced by the top of mainframe and the front of the long arm are more serious. Finally, the differences in head and neck injury characteristics under different velocities and locations for UAVs with different masses are compared. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to study the uniaxial compression properties of closed-cell metal foam, three different modeling methods were used in this paper to establish 2D random cell, 3D Kelvin and 3D voronoi metal foam model. Based on the LS-DYNA software, the differences of the compressive mechanical properties of the closed-cell metal foam under three different models were analyzed. The deformation mode and the stress strain response of the metal foam under three models were studied. The results show that 2D random cell model is more suitable for the study of the compression regularity of metal foam, and the 3D model is more suitable for the prediction and optimization of the compression response of metal foam. The 2D random cell model is restricted by its plane geometry, it can only simulate the closed-cell metal foam with low porosity in most cases. The Kelvin model and Voronoi model can simulate the closed- cell metal foam with high porosity. Compared with the Kelvin model and 2D random cell model, the voronoi model is more realistic and reasonable, and it is able to better characterize the compressive mechanical properties of closed-cell metal foam.