TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Cross-sectional neck response of a total human body FE model during simulated frontal and side automobile impacts
JO  - Computer methods in biomechanics and biomedical engineering
A1  - White, Nicholas A.
A1  - Moreno, Daniel P.
A1  - Gayzik, F. Scott
A1  - Stitzel, Joel D.
SP  - 293
EP  - 315
VL  - 18
IS  - 3
N2  - Human body finite element (FE) models are beginning to play a more prevalent role in the advancement of automotive safety. A methodology has been developed to evaluate neck response at multiple levels in a human body FE model during simulated automotive impacts. Three different impact scenarios were simulated: a frontal impact of a belted driver with airbag deployment, a frontal impact of a belted passenger without airbag deployment and an unbelted side impact sled test. Cross sections were created at each vertebral level of the cervical spine to calculate the force and moment contributions of different anatomical components of the neck. Adjacent level axial force ratios varied between 0.74 and 1.11 and adjacent level bending moment ratios between 0.55 and 1.15. The present technique is ideal for comparing neck forces and moments to existing injury threshold values, calculating injury criteria and for better understanding the biomechanical mechanisms of neck injury and load sharing during sub-injurious and injurious loading.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1025-5842
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10255842.2013.792918
ID  - ref1
ER  -