Effect of active muscle forces on knee injury risks for pedestrian standing posture at low speed impacts

International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Injury - 2007 International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Injury, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 95-112

  Chawla, A ^a   Mukherjee, S ^a   Soni, A ^a   Malhotra, R ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Finite element modeling; Hill muscle model; Knee injury; Muscle contraction; Pedestrian safety

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FORCES; FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; HILL MUSCLE MODEL; IMPACT ANGLES; KNEE INJURY; KNEE JOINT; KNEE LIGAMENTS; LOADING CONDITION; LOW SPEED; LOWER EXTREMITY INJURIES; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTIONS; MUSCLE FORCE; PEDESTRIAN CRASHES; PRE-IMPACT; STANDING POSTURE; STRAIN VALUES;

ACCIDENTS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); MUSCLE;

PEDESTRIAN SAFETY;

EID: 84855840519     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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