Numerical simulations of human head-neck dynamics

Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 61-71

  Huang, Shyh Chour ^a  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Head neck system; Modeling; Multibody system

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; HEAD MOVEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACCELERATION; ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECELERATION; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; JOINTS; LIGAMENTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NECK; SKULL; STRESS, MECHANICAL; THORAX;

EID: 0033025828     PISSN: 09592989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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