Category: News

AGU Seminar 2020 – Programme

The programme for the AGU seminar on 15th of January 2020 is now online. The main focus of this year's presentations are automated vehicles. For more informations about the programme…

Research project: Accident Analysis of the Future

The automotive industrie ist currently undergoing a turnaround. Vehicles will increasingly be able to perform driving tasks without the influence of the driver. Vehicles are developing in the direction of…

Project completion: Emerging road users

The research project "Emerging road useres" is completed. The objective of the investigations was to analyse the potential of personal light electric vehicles (PLEV) as a means of transport and…

Testing bicycle helmets with/without MIPS

The AGU has tested new bicycle helmets in cooperation with the Dynamic Test Center (DTC). As part of a consumer test, the advantages and disadvantages of the innovative helmet system…

Trauma Biomechanics – new edition

The book Trauma Biomechanics - An Introduction to Injury Biomechanics has now appeared in the 5th edition, respectively. For more information please visit our publications section.

AGU seminar 2019

The hand-out of our last AGU Seminar (16 January 2019) are now available for download under Publikationen

On-site impact testing of ice hockey boards

In a previous study the AGU developed a new pendulum for testing ice hockey boards.This test device allows to test the boards in on-site szenarios. As part of this research,…

VIRTUAL: Successful workshop in Berlin

In context of the EU project VIRTUAL, a workshop on open-source human body modeling was held on October 17 in Berlin. The workshop attracted over 40 international experts on human…

Research: Testing ice hockey dasher boards

A new impactor was developed for improved testing of ice hockey boards. The instrumented impactor is built of a steel tube covered with neoprene foam and filled with rigidly mounted…