MATERIAL STUDY FOR DESIGNING PORTABLE HELMET

Neeraj B. Kamble, A.B. Rane, Saurabh Korgaonkar

Abstract: Actually, the helmet was available since so many decades. It was actually in battle for protecting people in the battle. It was made by iron. But nowadays, the helmet are use in so many areas like building, cycling, horse-riding, snowboarding, boxing, motorcycle rider.In this paper, the main focus is on motorcycle helmet. The helmet is the most common safety equipment used by the motorcyclist. Due to high fatality of two-wheeler, it was felt that there was need to look at improving the safety of the motorcyclist in the country. However, due to the problem of storage, bulky and heaviness of the helmet certain riders prefer to not wear them.Looking at this set of difficulties faced by the rider and their pillions, the aim is to research intothe helmet in order to make compact, lighter and safe. At this stage, a different material is studied.

Keywords: Fatality, Flexible, Resilient, Cushion

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2018.0707016