Bicycle Helmets: Head Impact Dynamics in Helmeted and Unhelmeted Oblique Impact Tests

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 501-508

  McIntosh, Andrew S ^a,b   Lai, Adrian ^a,c   Schilter, Edgar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

brain injury; helmet; impact biomechanics; test methods

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BICYCLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAD INJURY; HELMET; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BICYCLING; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; HEAD PROTECTIVE DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MANIKINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84878771775     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2012.727217     Document Type: Article

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