Reconstruction of head injury cases arising from falls using the UCD brain trauma model

Solid Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 124, Issue , 2005, Pages 431-440

  Doorly, M C ^a   Horgan, T J ^a   Gilchrist, M D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Accident reconstruction; Falls; Finite Element Method (FEM); Head injury; Impact biomechanics; Multibody dynamics

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

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

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 84860735285     PISSN: 18753507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3796-1_44     Document Type: Conference Paper

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