Accident Reconstruction & Biomechanics

Accident reconstruction and biomechanics — delta-v and event data, injury mechanisms and tolerances, restraint analysis, and component-failure interaction with occupant response.

Private cohorts & on-site
Format: 3-day (8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.)
Level: Intermediate
Location: Scheduled on demand · on-site at your facility or a regional venue
Date(s): Not yet scheduled for open enrollment. Get notified when it is, or book it privately for your team.
Includes: Certificate of Completion · printed slide binder · take-home reference text

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Faculty

Faculty details for this seminar will be announced with the full schedule.

Fees

Early: $1,895 (payment 4+ weeks ahead)
Standard: $2,095 (check/ACH) · $2,165 (card)

Group discount: $200 off per attendee for 3+ from the same organization.

Also Available

  • Corporate on-site delivery at your facility
  • Private cohort sessions
  • Digital curriculum licensing

Seminar Overview

When a plastic part failure leads to injury, the engineering investigation must connect the fracture to the biomechanics of the occupant. This seminar builds that bridge: accident reconstruction fundamentals (velocity, delta-v, event data), the biomechanics of injury and tolerances, restraint and seatbelt analysis, and how component failures interact with the occupant response. Taught by ETS-affiliated engineering faculty, it equips ETS's failure-analysis engineers for the multi-expert product-liability cases that combine plastics, crash, and injury.

Ideal Learner

  • Failure-analysis and forensic engineers in product liability
  • Accident reconstructionists and biomechanical engineers
  • Automotive safety and restraint engineers
  • Design engineers whose parts sit in the occupant environment
  • Legal and insurance professionals in injury litigation

Learning Objectives

  • Perform fundamentals of speed/delta-v reconstruction from scene evidence
  • Extract and interpret EDR/event data for reconstruction
  • Apply biomechanics of injury and human tolerance limits
  • Analyze restraints, airbags, and their interaction with occupant response
  • Connect a component failure to the injury mechanism in a defensible chain

Consulting Sessions

Seminar attendees can sign up for individual consulting sessions with the instructor. Sessions are free for registered attendees, first-come first-served — sign up when registering by calling 248-539-0473 or during the seminar.

Seminar Outline

  • Momentum, conservation, and speed from damage/marks
  • Scene evidence: marks, crush, trajectory, surveillance
  • Delta-v and its uncertainty
  • EDR parameters and download
  • Reconstruction from event data and its limits
  • Driving-data and telematics in reconstruction
  • Seatbelts, airbags, and seat performance
  • Occupant kinematics and loading
  • Restraint-system failure analysis
  • Human tolerance and injury mechanisms
  • Head, neck, and extremity biomechanics
  • Correlating load to injury class and severity
  • How a part failure (seat, airbag, interior) injures
  • The multi-expert chain: physics + materials + biomechanics
  • Standing up the causation in liability
  • Attendees run a crash-to-injury reconstruction
  • Link event, deformation, and biomechanics
  • Present the full causation chain

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