Blast-wave impact-mitigation capability of polyurea when used as helmet suspension-pad material

Materials and Design

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4050-4065

  Grujicic, M ^a   Bell, W C ^a   Pandurangan, B ^a   He, T ^a  

^a AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational analysis; Helmet design; Polyurea; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

AXIAL STRESS; BLAST LOADING; COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; HEAD PROTECTION; LETHAL DOSE; LONG-TERM EFFECTS; MECHANICAL RESPONSE; MILITARY CONFLICTS; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; PAD MATERIAL; PEAK LOADING; PEAK OVERPRESSURE; POLYUREAS; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES; WAVE IMPACTS;

BRAIN; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; OFFSHORE STRUCTURES; SAFETY DEVICES;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

EID: 77953542197     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2010.05.002     Document Type: Article

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