With the increase of global car ownership and the popularization of intelligent driving assistance systems, the optimization design of vehicle collision safety test technology and detection devices such as crash dummy etc. has become a hot issue in the field of vehicle safety. Therefore vehicle crash tests are required to more accurately simulate, predict, and evaluate varied car crash accidents and relative injuries to persons involved so that the car safety can be optimized during design. This is essential to avoid or reduce the personnel injuries in traffic accidents. Bionic machinery and intelligent machinery are innovative, challenging, and comprehensive technology frontiers in the 21st century. The vehicle crash test needs to accurately simulate the damage mechanism and tolerance limits in line with human biological characteristics, and to carry out comprehensive research on the complex structure of the human body from many aspects.

Therefore, interdisciplinary cooperation is needed to provide guidance for experimental design and optimization from different angles. Bionics and biomechanics combined with automotive engineering, anthropometry, impact contact mechanics, simulated skin materials, high-precision multi-sensor informatics, machining technology, and other different disciplines and engineering fields can solve many problems in the field of automotive collision safety from the perspective of morphological bionics, structural bionics, mechanical function bionics and dynamic function bionics. For example, by combining with anthropometry to optimize the bionic design of Anthropomorphic Test Device (ATD) for vehicle crash test guide and improve the ergonomic design of vehicle active and passive safety, more accurate feedback results of the responses of passengers, vehicles and pedestrians in vehicle crash test can be obtained. Interdisciplinary cooperation promotes the integration of multi-disciplinary skills and technologies, contributes to a comprehensive understanding of the optimal design methods of vehicle collision safety testing technology and devices, and brings new vitality to the field of vehicle collision safety.

This Special Issue aims to attract articles focusing on the applications and challenges of bionics and biomechanics theories and technologies in the field of vehicle collision safety, bring new insights into the application of bionics and biomechanics in the field of vehicle collision safety, and provide new inspiration for the design and optimization of products. We welcome original research and review articles.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Human biomechanics
• Human injury mechanism and biomechanical response
• Application of anthropometry in automobile crash dummy
• Statistical analysis of anthropometric data
• Bionic design of human joints
• Multi-objective optimizing design of bionic structure
• Equivalent principle of bone mechanics
• Equivalent principle of skin mechanics
• Dynamic and static characteristics of vehicle crash dummy
• Application of polymer materials in bionic skin
• Producing technology of automobile crash dummy skin
• Rapid modeling and analysis of vehicle collision
• Simulation and optimization design of occupant’s biological model
• Design of multi axis special-shaped sensor
• Experimental studies on collision calibration