Citation

Ruan J, Prasad P. Int. J. Veh. Safety 2006; 1(4): 281-291.

Affiliation

Biomechanics and Vehicle Safety R and D, Research and Innovation Center, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI 48124, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Inderscience Publishers)

DOI

10.1504/IJVS.2006.011230

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The influence of human head tissue properties on intracranial pressure response during direct head impact was studied using finite element analysis and Design-of-Experiment (DOE) techniques. A three-factor, three-level factorial experiment design was applied to the skull, cerebrospinal fluid and brain of a finite element human head model to characterise the effects of these tissues on intracranial pressure response of the human head. This study has demonstrated that a DOE approach can provide more modelling information than the approach using one factor at a time. It has also shown that the incompressibility of the brain contributes much more to the variability of coup and contrecoup pressures than other cranial contents (73% and 53%, respectively).

Language: en