Design of human surrogates for the study of biomechanical injury: A review

Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 51-89

  Mitchell, Séan ^a   Payne, Thomas ^a   Bibb, Richard ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal; ATD; Biomechanics; Cadaver; Computational; Impact; Model; PMHS; PPE; Volunteer

Indexed keywords

ATD; CADAVER; COMPUTATIONAL; IMPACT; PMHS; PPE; VOLUNTEER;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; MODELS; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SPORTS;

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ANATOMIC MODEL; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; BEHAVIOR; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INJURY; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRAIN; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; REVIEW; SPORT INJURY; TENDON; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84875782053     PISSN: 0278940X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/CritRevBiomedEng.2013006847     Document Type: Review

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