Human surrogate head response to dynamic overpressure loading in protected and unprotected conditions

IFMBE Proceedings

Volumn 32 IFMBE, Issue , 2010, Pages 22-25

  Merkle, A C ^a   Wing, I D ^a   Roberts, J C ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Whiting School of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Blast; Brain; Head; Injury; Surrogate

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMORPHIC TEST DEVICES; BALLISTIC PERFORMANCE; BLAST; BLAST LOADING; BRAIN RESPONSE; FACIAL STRUCTURE; HEAD; HEAD MODEL; HEAD MOTION; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; INJURY; INJURY MECHANISMS; INTERNAL PRESSURE; LOAD CONDITION; LOADING CONDITION; OVERPRESSURE; PEAK PRESSURE; PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; PRESSURE PEAKS; PRESSURE WAVEFORMS; SAGITTAL PLANE; SURROGATE; SURROGATE MODEL; TEST PARAMETERS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BRAIN; EXPLOSIVES; LOADING; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SAFETY DEVICES; SHOCK TUBES;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

EID: 78049405501     PISSN: 16800737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14998-6_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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