Citation

NATO Advisory Group for Aviation Research and Development. Proc. Am. Assoc. Automot. Med. Annu. Conf. 1961; 5: 255-258.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1961, Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine)

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Abstract

The Committee on Acceleration of the AeroSpace Medical Panel of AGARD has explored the feasibility of establishing a standardized terminology for usage in acceleration studies. After canvassing the international facilities engaged in acceleration research and gauging their response to the recommended terminologies, the committee has come to the conclusion that it is more desirable and practical to assemble a table of equivalents for the terminologies in common use for the easement of translation. The descriptive terms and symbols selected for the table are those most commonly used and endorsed by the acceleration facilities collectively.

The terminologies group themselves in two basic configurations:

The terminologies group themselves in two basic configurations, which have been set up as Tables A and B. Table A contains the two acceleration terminologies that are commonly used in the field of aeronautics when reference is made to the direction of acceleration of a mass. Table B refers to the inertial reaction of the tissues and fluids of the intact mammalian body in response to the acceleration applied to the whole body. Essentially these two tables, with the exception of Column 1 of Table A., are a comparative listing of the terms applied to an action involving the accelerated movement of a whole mammal and a reaction of the semi-solid internal constituents of that mammal to the accelerated movement.

The Committee on Acceleration of the AGARD AeroSpace Medical Panel recommends the following:

1. That writers and researchers in the field of acceleration related to mammalian subjects restrict their descriptive terminologies and symbols to those contained within the attached table of equivalents.

2. That the attached table be used as a ready reference for equivalent translation of acceleration terminologies.

3. That large G be used as the unit of physiological acceleration at all times.

4. That the metric system be used in applying these acceleration terminologies and symbols.