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Citation

Decker W, Baker A, Ye X, Brown P, Stitzel J, Gayzik FS. Ann. Biomed. Eng. 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Biomedical Engineering, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 575 Patterson Ave, Winston-Salem, NC, 27101, USA. sgayzik@wakehealth.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10439-019-02345-7

PMID

31520331

Abstract

Head injury is a growing concern within contact sports, including American football. Computational tools such as finite element (FE) models provide an avenue for researchers to study, and potentially optimize safety tools, such as helmets. The goal of this study was to develop an accurate representative helmet model that could be used in further study of head injury to mitigate the toll of concussions in contact sports. An FE model of a Schutt Air XP Pro football helmet was developed through three major steps: geometry development, material characterization, and model validation. The fully assembled helmet model was fit onto a Hybrid III dummy head-neck model and National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) head model and validated through a series of 67 representative impacts similar to those experienced by a football player. The kinematic and kinetic response of the model was compared to the response of the physical experiments, which included force, head linear acceleration, head angular velocity, and carriage acceleration. The outputs between the model and the physical tests were quantitatively evaluated using CORelation and Analysis (CORA), amounting to an overall averaged score of 0.76. The model described in this study has been extensively validated and can function as a building block for innovation in player safety.


Language: en

Keywords

Computational modeling; Finite element analysis; Finite element model; Football helmet model; Injury biomechanics; Validation

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