Investigation of head response to blast loading

Journal of Trauma

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2011, Pages E29-E36

  Lockhart, Philip ^a   Cronin, Duane ^a   Williams, Kevin ^b   Ouellet, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blast; CONWEP; Explosive; Head; Injury; LS Dyna

Indexed keywords

EXPLOSIVE;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; HEAD INJURY; KINEMATICS; PARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION STUDY;

BLAST INJURIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; EXPLOSIONS; HEAD; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 79951671379     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181de3f4b     Document Type: Article

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