Head injury risk assessment for forehead impacts

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages

  Mertz, H J ^a   Prasad, P ^b   Nusholtz, G ^c  

^a GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

^c CENTRO RICERCHE FIAT   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; HYBRID INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POPULATION STATISTICS;

BRAIN DAMAGE; CADAVER TESTS; HEAD ACCELERATIONS; HEAD INJURIES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHODS; SIMULATED FRACTURE; SKULL FRACTURE; TIME DEPENDENT;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 85072445764     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/960099     Document Type: Conference Paper

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