Human head-neck computational model for assessing blast injury

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 45, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 2899-2906

  Roberts, J C ^a   Harrigan, T P ^a   Ward, E E ^a   Taylor, T M ^a   Annett, M S ^b   Merkle, A C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blast; Brain injury; Finite element models (FEM); Human models; Surrogate models

Indexed keywords

BLAST; BRAIN INJURY; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; HUMAN MODEL; SURROGATE MODEL;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUEL ADDITIVES; LOADING; SENSORS; SHOCK TUBES; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

BRAIN MODELS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSENSOR; BLAST INJURY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN HEAD FINITE ELEMENT MODEL; HUMAN HEAD SURROGATE MODEL; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTRACRANIAL TEMPORAL PRESSURE; MEDICAL DEVICE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE BRAIN TO SKULL DISPLACEMENT; RELATIVE ROTATION BETWEEN SMALL REGION OF THE BRAIN; SIMULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BIOMECHANICS; BLAST INJURIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEAD; HUMANS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NECK; PRESSURE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84868383639     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: 18732380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2012.07.027     Document Type: Article

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