TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Similitude assessment method for comparing PMHS response data from impact loading across multiple test devices
JO  - Journal of biomechanics
A1  - Dooley, Christopher J.
A1  - Tenore, Francesco V.
A1  - Gayzik, F. Scott
A1  - Merkle, Andrew C.
SP  - 258
EP  - 261
VL  - 72
IS  - 
N2  - Biological tissue testing is inherently susceptible to the wide range of variability specimen to specimen. A primary resource for encapsulating this range of variability is the biofidelity response corridor or BRC. In the field of injury biomechanics, BRCs are often used for development and validation of both physical, such as anthropomorphic test devices, and computational models. For the purpose of generating corridors, post-mortem human surrogates were tested across a range of loading conditions relevant to under-body blast events. To sufficiently cover the wide range of input conditions, a relatively small number of tests were performed across a large spread of conditions. The high volume of required testing called for leveraging the capabilities of multiple impact test facilities, all with slight variations in test devices. A method for assessing similitude of responses between test devices was created as a metric for inclusion of a response in the resulting BRC. The goal of this method was to supply a statistically sound, objective method to assess the similitude of an individual response against a set of responses to ensure that the BRC created from the set was affected primarily by biological variability, not anomalies or differences stemming from test devices.<br><br>Copyright © 2018. Published by Elsevier Ltd.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0021-9290
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2018.03.010
ID  - ref1
ER  -