Using a gel/plastic surrogate to study the biomechanical response of the head under air shock loading: A combined experimental and numerical investigation

Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology

Volumn 11, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 341-353

  Zhu, Feng ^a   Wagner, Christina ^a   Dal Cengio Leonardi, Alessandra ^a   Jin, Xin ^a   VandeVord, Pamela ^a   Chou, Clifford ^a   Yang, King H ^a   King, Albert I ^a  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

ALE method; Biomechanical response; Blast loading; Fluid solid coupling; Shock tube

Indexed keywords

AIR; BIOMECHANICS; ELASTIC MODULI; FACINGS; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ARBITRARY LAGRANGIAN EULERIAN METHOD; BIOMECHANICAL RESPONSE; BLAST LOADING; FLUID-SOLID COUPLING; NEGATIVE PRESSURES; OVERPRESSURE; POSITIVE PRESSURE; SHOCK FRONTS; SHOCK LOADINGS; SHOCK-WAVES;

SHOCK TUBES;

PLASTIC;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN INJURY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GEL; HUMAN; MATERIALS TESTING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; SKULL; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN INJURIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GELS; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLASTICS; PRESSURE; SKULL; SOFTWARE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84861092349     PISSN: 16177959     EISSN: 16177940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10237-011-0314-2     Document Type: Article

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