Effects of the presence of the body in helmet oblique impacts

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 50, Issue , 2013, Pages 263-271

  Ghajari, Mazdak ^a   Peldschus, Steffen ^b   Galvanetto, Ugo ^c   Iannucci, Lorenzo ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Helmet; Human body; Motorcycle; Oblique impact; Standard

Indexed keywords

FULL BODY; HELMET; HUMAN BODIES; IMPACT RESPONSE; INERTIAL PROPERTIES; LINEAR ACCELERATIONS; MOTORCYCLE HELMET; OBLIQUE IMPACT; ROTATIONAL ACCELERATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MOTORCYCLES; STANDARDS;

SAFETY DEVICES;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HELMET; HUMAN; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOTORCYCLE; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROTATION; STANDARD;

ACCELERATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEAD PROTECTIVE DEVICES; HUMANS; MANIKINS; MATERIALS TESTING; MOTORCYCLES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROTATION; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84870293421     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2012.04.016     Document Type: Article

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