Injury data from unhelmeted football head impacts evaluated against critical strain tolerance curves

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part P: Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology

Volumn 226, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 177-184

  Patton, Declan A ^a   McIntosh, Andrew S ^a,b   Kleiven, Svein ^c   Fréchède, Bertrand ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d Lyon University   (France)

Author keywords

Brain injury; concussion; finite element; impact reconstruction; injury tolerance; strain

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR ACCELERATION; BIOMECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS; BRAIN INJURY; CONCUSSION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CRITICAL STRAINS; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; FINITE ELEMENT; HEAD IMPACT; HUMAN HEAD MODEL; INJURY TOLERANCE; LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS; MAXIMUM PRINCIPAL STRAIN; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE STRAINS; PEDESTRIAN IMPACT; RIGID-BODY SIMULATIONS; ROTATIONAL KINEMATICS; SHORT DURATIONS; STRAIN LEVELS; TOLERANCE LEVELS; VIDEO DATABASE;

KINEMATICS; STRAIN;

SPORTS;

EID: 84874061999     PISSN: 17543371     EISSN: 1754338X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1754337112438305     Document Type: Conference Paper

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