ABSTRACT
The difficulty with an OOP situation compared to an in-position situation is that the inflation of the folded airbag is much more important. It has to be realistically computed, since it affects the impact of the dummy. Attaining a realistic simulation means starting with a correct geometry of the folded airbag and simulating the inflation with correct gas dynamics. Several commercial software packages exist that can simulate the inflation process of an airbag, e.g., the explicit Finite Element (FE) code LS-DYNA [5].
