INVESTIGATION OF INERTIAL PROPERTIES OF THE HUMAN BODY

Knowledge of the anthropometric parameters of the human body is essential for understanding of human kinetics and particularly for the design and testing of impact protective systems. Considerable information is available on the size, weight and center of mass of the body and its segments. The report supplements existing information with data regarding mass distribution characteristics of the human body as described by the principal moments of inertia and their orientation to body and segment anthropometry. The weight, center of mass location and principal moments of inertia of six cadavers were measured, the cadavers were then segmented and the mass, center of mass, moments of inertia and volume were measured on the fourteen segment from each cadaver.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Prepared in cooperation with Civil Aeromedical Inst., Oklahoma City, Okla., and Webb Associates, Inc., Yellow Springs, Ohio.
• Corporate Authors:

  Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory

  Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
  Dayton, OH  United States  45433

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Civil Aeromedical Institute

  Oklahoma City, OK  United States  73128

  Webb Associates, Incorporated

  Yellow Springs, OH  United States  45387
• Authors:
  • Chandler, R F
  • Clauser, C E
  • McConville, J T
  • Reynolds, H M
  • Young, J W
• Publication Date: 1975-3

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 168 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aeronautics; Anthropometry; Aviation medicine; Cadavers; Human factors engineering; Inertia (Mechanics); Kinetics; Mass; Moments of inertia; Size; Tables (Data); Weight
• Uncontrolled Terms: Body weight
• Old TRIS Terms: Aerospace medicine; Body; Response
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00091376
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: AMRL-TR-74-137 Final Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: DOT-HS-017-2-315-1A
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jul 15 1975 12:00AM