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Mr David Paul Young

Title: Postgraduate Student

Contact Information:

E-mail:David.Young@eng.monash.edu.au
Phone:(03) 9905 1291
Fax:(03) 9905 4944
Room:149
Building:60
Campus:Clayton

Teaching Commitments:

ENG 1020 Senior Tutor

Qualifications:

BE (Hons)

BSc

Research:

Rollover injuries are the outcome of the inability of a vehicle's crashworthiness design, or lack of, to protect its occupants during a rollover crash. While countermeasures for injuries due to ejection during such crashes are well established, there is still much debate ongoing regarding injury mechanisms of occupants contained in a vehicle during a rollover and hence the countermeasures required to mitigate such injuries. This research aims to establish the injury mechanisms that exist for contained occupants of real world rollover crashes. In doing this it is intended that the issue of if a causal link exists between rollover head and neck injuries and vehicle roof crush will be resolved.

Publications:

Young D, Grzebieta R.H, Rechnitzer G, Bambach M, & Richardson S, Rollover Crash safety: Characteristics and issues ICRASH2006, Athens, Greece, 4-7 July, 2006.

Young D, Grzebieta R.H, McIntosh A, S, Bambach M and Fréchède B, Diving vs Roof Intrusion: A Review of Rollover Injury Causation, International Journal of Crashworthiness, Volume 12 Issue 6, 2007, 609-628

Young D, Bambach M, Grzebieta R.H and McIntosh A, Australian rollover crash injuries: An ARC funded study, Presented at Australian road safety research policing and education conference, Melbourne, 17-19 October, 2007

Grzebieta R.H, Young D, Bambach M and McIntosh A., Rollover Crashes: Diving Versus Roof Crush, 20th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV), Paper Number: 07-0394, Lyon, France, June 2007.

Grzebieta R.H, Young D, McIntosh A, Bambach M, Fréchède B, Tan G, and Achilles T. Rollover Crashworthiness: The final frontier of passive safety, Australian road safety research policing and education conference, Melbourne, 17-19 October, 2007