A severe ankle and foot injury in frontal crashes and its mechanism

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Kitagawa, Yuichi ^a   Ichikawa, Hideaki ^a   King, Albert I ^b   Levine, Robert S ^b  

^a NISSAN MOTOR CO   (Japan)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

ACHILLES TENDONS; AUTOMOTIVE CRASHES; COMBINED EFFECT; DEFORMABLE SOLIDS; DYNAMIC IMPACTS; LOADING CONDITION; LOWER LEG INJURIES; RIGID PENDULUMS;

TENDONS;

EID: 85072476598     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/983145     Document Type: Conference Paper

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