SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS FOR THE TRANSLATIONAL ENERGY CRITERIA: OVERALL INJURIES. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1989 INTERNATIONAL IRCOBI CONFERENCE ON THE BIOMECHANICS OF IMPACTS, HELD IN STOCKHOLM, 13-15 SEPTEMBER 1989

In this paper, a detailed sensitivity study on the recently developed Translational Energy Criteria (TEC) was accomplished. The results of the study confirmed that the TEC is consistent with the well accepted conclusion implying that a harder head impact causes a more severe head injury. In the TEC analysis, the energy function increases as the impact momentum increases. Thus, a harder hit (higher momentum) causes a more serious head injury and has a higher EC2 value. The results of the TEC analysis also showed that the power function, the impact onset rate and skull fracture correlate well. As a result, the TEC may also be used to predict the occurrence of skull fracture in impact situations.(A) For the covering abstracts of the conference see IRRD 826430.

• Corporate Authors:

  IRCOBI (International Research Council on the Biokinetics of Impacts)

  109 Avenue Salvador Allende
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• Authors:
  • ROJANAVANICH, V
  • STALNAKER, R L
• Publication Date: 1989

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 13-26
• Serial:
  • Publication of: IRCOBI-Secretariat
  • Publisher: IRCOBI (International Research Council on the Biokinetics of Impacts)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Biophysics; Conferences; Crash tests; Energy; Force; Forecasting; Fractures (Anatomy); Head; Injuries; Injury severity; Methodology; Skull
• Subject Areas: Energy; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00498379
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 30 1990 12:00AM