Karthik Somasundaram PhD
Assistant Professor
Institution: Medical College of Wisconsin
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Program: Biomedical Engineering Program
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Research Areas of Interest
Accidents, TrafficPedestriansTrauma, Nervous SystemPublications (15)
Obese Occupant Response in Reclined and Upright Seated Postures in Frontal Impacts. (Somasundaram K, Humm JR, Yoganandan N, Hauschild H, Driesslein K, Pintar FA) Stapp Car Crash J 2022 Nov;66:31-68 PMID: 37733821 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85150993131 09/21/2023 6 CitationsAnalysis of experimental injuries to obese occupants with different postures in frontal impact. (Yoganandan N, Somasundaram K, Pintar F) Accid Anal Prev 2023 Dec;193:107294 PMID: 37722257 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85171782373 09/19/2023 1 CitationTHOR-05F biofidelity evaluation in reclined and upright seated postures subjected to frontal crash pulses. (Somasundaram K, Hauschild H, Driesslein K, Pintar F, Richardson R, Parent D) Accid Anal Prev 2023 Oct;191:107185 PMID: 37429156 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85164213472 07/11/2023 1 CitationEffect of muscle activation scheme in human head-neck model on estimating cervical spine ligament strain from military volunteer frontal impact data. (Gerringer JW, Somasundaram K, Pintar FA) Accid Anal Prev 2023 Sep;190:107157 PMID: 37336050 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85162174423 06/20/2023 1 CitationSmall Female Occupant Response in Reclined and Upright Seated Postures in Frontal Impacts. (Somasundaram K, Hauschild H, Driesslein K, Pintar FA) J Biomech Eng 2024 Mar 01;146(3) PMID: 37295932 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85184344225 06/10/2023 2 CitationsTension-bending risk curves for the ATD lower lumbar spine subjected to oblique impact under FAA emergency landing conditions (Somasundaram K, Humm JR, Yoganandan N, Moorcroft DM, Pintar FA) International Journal of Crashworthiness 2023;28(6):786-796 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85140844863 01/01/2023 Obese occupant response in reclined and upright seated postures in frontal impact sled tests. (Somasundaram, K., Humm, J.R., Hauschild, H., Driesslein, K., Pintar, F.) Journal of Stapp Car Crash, 66 11/07/2022 Occupant Injury and Response on Oblique-Facing Aircraft Seats: A Computational Study. (Somasundaram K, Humm JR, Khandelwal P, Umale S, Moorcroft DM, Pintar FA) J Biomech Eng 2023 Feb 01;145(2) PMID: 36062977 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85139376332 09/06/2022 3 CitationsCervical spine degeneration specific segmental angular rotational and displacements: A quantitative study. (Somasundaram K, Cusick JF, Yoganandan N, Pintar FA) Clin Biomech (Bristol, Avon) 2022 Jul;97:105688 PMID: 35661894 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85131117739 06/07/2022 Importance of neural foraminal narrowing in lumbar spine fractures of low AIS severity. (Maiman DJ, Somasundaram K, Yoganandan N, Pintar F) Traffic Inj Prev 2021;22(sup1):S140-S142 PMID: 34714690 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85118439033 10/30/2021 Dynamic Response of the Thoracolumbar and Sacral Spine to Simulated Underbody Blast Loading in Whole Body Post Mortem Human Subject Tests. (Sherman D, Somasundaram K, Begeman P, Foley S, Greb J, Bir C, Demetropoulos CK, Cavanaugh JM) Ann Biomed Eng 2021 Nov;49(11):3046-3079 PMID: 33723705 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85102794954 03/17/2021 5 CitationsMechanisms and timing of injury to the thoracic, lumbar and sacral spine in simulated underbody blast PMHS impact tests. (Somasundaram K, Sherman D, Begeman P, Ciarelli T, McCarty SA, Kochkodan JJ, Demetropoulos CK, Cavanaugh JM) J Mech Behav Biomed Mater 2021 Apr;116:104271 PMID: 33517100 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85100062886 02/01/2021 7 CitationsEvaluating thoracolumbar spine response during simulated underbody blast impact using a total human body finite element model. (Somasundaram K, Zhang L, Sherman D, Begeman P, Lyu D, Cavanaugh JM) J Mech Behav Biomed Mater 2019 Dec;100:103398 PMID: 31450100 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85070955783 08/27/2019 18 CitationsAn Experimental and Numerical Study of Hybrid III Dummy Response to Simulated Underbody Blast Impacts. (Somasundaram K, Kalra A, Sherman D, Begeman P, Yang KH, Cavanaugh J) J Biomech Eng 2017 Dec 01;139(12) PMID: 28813547 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85030538406 08/17/2017 10 CitationsEffect of Boot Compliance in Numerical Model of Hybrid III in Vertical Loading (Kalra A, Somasundram K, Shen M, Gupta V, Chou CC, Zhu F) SAE Technical Papers 5 April 2016;2016-April(April) SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84975226395 04/05/2016 3 Citations Last update: 11/15/2023