Evaluation criteria for the reduction of minor neck injuries during rear-end impacts based on human volunteer experiments and accident reconstruction using human FE model simulations

International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Injury - 2009 International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Injury, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 381-398

  Ono, Koshiro ^a   Ejima, Susumu ^a   Yamazaki, Kunio ^a   Sato, Fusako ^a   Pramudita, Jonas Aditya ^b   Kaneoka, Koji ^c   Ujihashi, Sadayuki ^b  

^a JAPAN AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cadavers; Cervical vertebral motion; FE model; Strain strain rate; Volunteers

Indexed keywords

2D STRAIN; ACCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION; CADAVERS; CERVICAL VERTEBRA; CERVICAL VERTEBRAL MOTION; EVALUATION CRITERIA; EVALUATION METHOD; EVALUATION PARAMETERS; FE MODEL; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; HUMAN VOLUNTEERS; INJURY CRITERIA; NECK FORCES; NECK INJURY; REAR-END IMPACT; SOCIAL COST; VOLUNTEERS;

ACCIDENTS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 84855878759     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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