TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Characteristics of HIC in prediction of mTBI relating to crash pulses
JO  - International journal of vehicle design
A1  - Baghaei, Shahab Mansoor
A1  - Sadegh, Ali M.
A1  - Charles, Shawn
SP  - 59
EP  - 85
VL  - 80
IS  - 1
N2  - The head injury criterion (HIC) is a measure of traumatic head injury arising from an impact involving translational acceleration. In this paper, the HIC has been investigated for its dependency on the shape of the head acceleration profiles. A validated human head model was subjected to a series of similar pulses, having equal HIC values and maximum accelerations, with advanced or retarded peaks. For each case, the brain strain injury predictor was calculated. For validation, a mathematical/analytical model of the brain viscoelastic material was also developed and was subjected to different pulses. The results reflect that the strain in the brain for the two similar acceleration pulses with equal HIC values, even with the same maximum acceleration and impact duration time being entirely different. It is concluded that the pulses with the advanced peak time generate less strain in the brain when compared to that of retarded peak time.     Keywords: HIC; head injury criterion; mild traumatic head injury; pulse shape; injury predictor; analytical approach; finite element analysis; principal strain.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0143-3369
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJVD.2019.105066
ID  - ref1
ER  -