NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION BIOMECHANICS RESEARCH CENTER
This pamphlet discusses the National Transportation Biomechanics Research Center, created by the U.S. Department of Transportation to create a center of focus for the study of the action of forces and motions on the human body and its consequent response. Today's transportation fatalities and injuries are a continuing public health problem in the United States. Improvements in injury control are, to a large extent, limited by existing knowledge of biomechanics. The National Transportation Biomechanics Research Center will be able to tap increasing intermodal cooperation, establish parallel and synergistic biomechanics research and development efforts, take advantage of high performance computing, create partnerships and training beyond the Department of Transportation, enhance the cost effectiveness of biomechanics R&D, shorten research and development time, and produce new human dummy models for crash tests. It will expedite the development of a new small stature female dummy and an improved child dummy effecting improvements in air bag safety and in other transport modes.
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Corporate Authors:
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 - Publication Date: 1998
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 6 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Air bags; Biophysics; Children; Computers; Cost effectiveness; Crash injury research; Crash tests; Development; Dummies; Fatalities; Females; Injuries; Partnerships; Research; Research and educational facilities; Safety factors; Training
- Uncontrolled Terms: Research and development
- Old TRIS Terms: Injury research; National transportation biomechanics research cntr; Research facilities
- Subject Areas: Education and Training; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Terminals and Facilities;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00757875
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
- Report/Paper Numbers: HS-042 719
- Files: HSL, USDOT
- Created Date: Dec 21 1998 12:00AM