Variability in vehicle and dummy responses in rear-end collisions

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 267-277

  Siegmund, Gunter P ^a,b   Heinrichs, Bradley E ^a   Chimich, Dennis D ^a   Lawrence, Jonathan ^a  

^a MEA Forensic Engineers and Scientists   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Head Restraints; Seats; Vehicles; Whiplash Injury

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; MATERIALS TESTING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTOR VEHICLE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WHIPLASH INJURY;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILES; BIOMECHANICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HEAD PROTECTIVE DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MANIKINS; WHIPLASH INJURIES;

EID: 24144482576     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580590969427     Document Type: Article

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