Identification and prediction of injuries with long-term consequences

Injuries to the head and upper extremity body regions more commonly result in long-term consequences than injuries to other regions of the body. This project focuses on enhancing understanding of injuries in these body regions, including development of injury assessment tools and methods. In addition, a method for predicting risk of long-term consequences, using the human body model, SAFER HBM, was developed and applied in various head and upper extremity impact studies. To evaluate the applicability of various global head injury criteria for prediction of head injury risk in bicycle helmet evaluations and automotive occupant protection systems, a number of studies were carried out, including: (i) Bicycle helmet impact tests (ii) Comparison of state-of-the art finite element (FE) head models for short and long duration pulses (iii) Free motion headform (FMH) impact tests (iv) Airbag evaluation in frontal oblique impact In these studies, global head injury criteria based on linear acceleration and rotational velocity were evaluated.

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  • English

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  • Accession Number: 01844907
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
  • Files: ITRD, VTI
  • Created Date: May 6 2022 5:08PM