Comparative multibody dynamics analysis of falls from playground climbing frames

Forensic Science International

Volumn 191, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 52-57

  Forero Rueda, M A ^a   Gilchrist, M D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Head injury; Impact surface; Injury severity; Monkey bars; Multibody modelling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSITION; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CLIMBING; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FALLING; FORENSIC SCIENCE; HEAD INJURY; LEG INJURY; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECREATION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 69549084565     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2009.06.007     Document Type: Article

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