Reconstructing real life accidents towards establishing criteria for traumatic head impact injuries

Solid Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 124, Issue , 2005, Pages 81-90

  Doorly, M C ^a   Phillips, J P ^b   Gilchrist, M D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Accident reconstruction; Falls; Head injury; Impact biomechanics; Multibody dynamics

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICS; CLINICAL RESEARCH;

ACCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION; FALLS; HEAD INJURIES; IMPACT BIOMECHANICS; MULTI-BODY DYNAMIC;

ACCIDENTS;

EID: 84860709103     PISSN: 18753507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3796-1_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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