List of Occupant Injury Criteria

This study constitutes a summary literature review of injury criteria currently used by regulatory agencies (aerospace and automotive) worldwide, and presents state-of-the-art injury criteria and associated research for most body regions. The literature review findings have been divided into two categories: state-of-the-art injury criteria and state-of-the-art injury research. The state-of-the-art injury criteria category collects those documents where injury criteria are well defined and includes adequate tolerance limits for the criterion in question. This injury criterion should be measurable or derived from physical test parameters. On the other hand, the papers documented as state-of-the-art injury research include those criteria that were or are currently being developed but do not have well defined limits or cannot be measured from physical test parameters. The study divides injury criteria into classifications of: head, neck, torso, upper extremities, and lower extremities. Each body region is then divided into sagittal and coronal loading. Sagittal and coronal loading are subdivided into existing-regulatory, state-of-the-art injury criteria, and state-of-the-art injury research according to the previous definitions.

• Record URL:
  https://www.faa.gov/data_research/research/med_humanfacs/oamtechreports/2020s/media/202102.pdf
• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/57221
• Corporate Authors:

  National Institute for Aviation Research

  Wichita State University
  Wichita, KS  United States  67208-1595

  Federal Aviation Administration

  Office of Aerospace Medicine, 800 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20591
• Authors:
  • Olivares, Gerardo
  • Gomez, Luis
  • De Abreu, Armando
• Publication Date: 2018-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 38p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Abdomen; Aviation; Crash injuries; Crash injury research; Extremities; Head; Injury classification; Literature reviews; Neck; State of the art; Thorax
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01779042
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT/FAA/AM-21/02
• Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 15 2021 6:07PM