Seat belt modelling and testing through virtual prototyping

Abstract Road safety requires optimal collaboration and coordination between several factors directly or indirectly involved in order to ensure safety for all public road users within a national transport system. Within this system the tasks of each component must be very clearly defined and regulated so that the whole system functions properly. The paper presents a case study on the operation of the driver restraint system in the driving position. For this purpose, the three-point seat belt was modeled using the LS-Dyna software package. For the proposed analysis, the seat belt with grip on the central pillar of the vehicle was considered. This type of seat belt is the most common passive safety system in series vehicles.