Biomechanics and injury mitigation systems program: An overview of human models for assessing injury risk in blast, ballistic, and transportation impact scenarios

Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest (Applied Physics Laboratory)

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 286-295

  Merkle, Andrew C ^a,b   Carneal, Catherine M ^a,b   Wing, Ian D ^b   Wickwire, Alexis C ^b   Paulson, Jeffrey M ^b   Ott, Kyle A ^b   Ward, Emily E ^b   Harrigan, Timothy P ^a,b   Roberts, Jack C ^a,c   Carkhuff, Bliss G ^a   Taylor, Trent M ^a  

^a BIMS Program   (United States)

^b APL ^*  (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC LOADINGS; INJURY MITIGATION; LOADING CONDITION; MEASURING PARAMETERS; MECHANICAL RESPONSE; PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; TRANSPORTATION IMPACTS; VEHICLE SAFETY SYSTEMS;

BIOMECHANICS; DURABILITY; DYNAMIC LOADS; EXPLOSIVES; MODELS; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING;

LOADING;

EID: 84874842248     PISSN: 02705214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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