Research is performed with the aim to preventing injuries to the human body, due to extreme mechanical loading. This can for instance be loading caused in traffic accidents. The research is prioritized based on accident statistics provided by the Field Data Management group within the division.

The research covers understanding of the reasons why accidents and incidents occur, driver behavior, driver reactions and the impact on the driver in different traffic situations as well as injury mechanism at the microscopic level and to the response of the whole human body during externally applied violent mechanical loads.

All research is in essence multidisciplinary and spans from the field of mechanics to behavioral science, medicine, numerical methods, sensors and signals, and image processing.