Deflection corridors of abdomen and thorax in oblique side impacts using equal stress equal velocity approach: comparison with other normalization methods. J Biomech Eng 2014 Oct;136(10):101012
Date
07/18/2014Pubmed ID
25032940DOI
10.1115/1.4028032Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84940311133 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 6 CitationsAbstract
The first objective of the study was to determine the thorax and abdomen deflection time corridors using the equal stress equal velocity approach from oblique side impact sled tests with postmortem human surrogates fitted with chestbands. The second purpose of the study was to generate deflection time corridors using impulse momentum methods and determine which of these methods best suits the data. An anthropometry-specific load wall was used. Individual surrogate responses were normalized to standard midsize male anthropometry. Corridors from the equal stress equal velocity approach were very similar to those from impulse momentum methods, thus either method can be used for this data. Present mean and plus/minus one standard deviation abdomen and thorax deflection time corridors can be used to evaluate dummies and validate complex human body finite element models.
Author List
Yoganandan N, Arun MW, Humm J, Pintar FAAuthors
Frank A. Pintar PhD Chair, Professor in the Biomedical Engineering department at Medical College of WisconsinNarayan Yoganandan PhD Professor in the Neurosurgery department at Medical College of Wisconsin
MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
AbdomenBiomechanical Phenomena
Humans
Male
Materials Testing
Statistics as Topic
Stress, Mechanical
Thorax