2011 年 14 巻 p. 1-7
It was clarified that the typical injured case was femur fracture according to the casualty survey after HyogokenNanbu earthquake. Some of the injured person were happened in on-damaged buildings. This indicates the importance of elucidating the mechanism of injury in order to consider ways of reducing human suffering during earthquakes. In this study, we developed a thigh model which is made of silicon and a mock bone and includes an acceleration meter. We made an experiment that furniture crash test and evaluated a risk of femur fracture.