Citation

Alem NM, Nusholtz GS, Melvin JW. Proc. Stapp Car Crash Conf. 1984; 28: 275-288.

Affiliation

Univ of Michigan, Transportation Research Inst, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Copyright

(Copyright © 1984, Society of Automotive Engineers SAE)

DOI

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Abstract

Two series of impacts to the head in the superior-inferior direction using 19 unembalmed cadavers are reported. The first series of five tests was aimed at generating kinematic and dynamic response to sub-injurious impacts for the purpose of defining the mechanical characteristics of the undamaged head-neck-spine system in the S-I direction. The second series of fourteen tests was intended to define injury tolerance levels for a selected subject configuration. A 10-kg impactor was used to deliver the impact to the crown at a nominal velocity of 8 m/s for the first series, and between 7 and 11 m/s for the second series. Measurements made include the impact velocity, force, and energy, the head three-dimensional kinematics, forces and moments at the occipital condyles, and accelerations of the T1, T6, and T12 vertebrae.

Language: en