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Injury Biomechanics

A special issue of Safety (ISSN 2313-576X).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2019) | Viewed by 7287

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Prof. Dr. Dan K Ramsey

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Department of Health Professions Education, 033 School of Arts, Sciences and Education (SASE), 591 Niagara St, Buffalo, NY 14201, USA
Interests: musculoskeletal and sports biomechanics; cyber-physical systems & tele-rehabilitation; weight loss outcome(s) following bariatric surgery
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Dear Colleagues,

Injury is one of the most underrecognized public health problem worldwide and is especially tragic because it is preventable. The goal for injury research is to reduce injury morbidity and improve outcomes. This is done through sound industrial and systems design engineering, developing intervention and therapeutic intervention strategies, and clinical management. Yet, diverse populations, human activities, and situations in which excessive loads occur, causing injury, warrant further elucidation. Improved protection against injury can be realized through a better understanding of the biomechanics of injury and disability.

Injury causation is the biomechanical response of the human body or the function/structure of cells/tissues to dynamic loading and the mechanisms and tolerances of the different body regions to injury. Research includes macroscopic motion analysis of human volunteers or surrogates to microscopic measures of cell and tissue function/structure complemented by computational and translational models that extend experimental findings to broad, real-world environments.

This Special Issue "Injury Biomechanics" will focus on either applied, experimental, or theoretical studies dedicated to the identification and definition of injury mechanisms, the quantification of biomechanical responses, the determination of impact tolerance levels, and the development and use of injury assessment devices and techniques for evaluating injury prevention systems. Emphasis is on expanding our knowledge of musculoskeletal biomechanics related to injury prevention and human health. Researchers can submit papers dealing with any aspect related to the Biomechanics of Injury.

Prof. Dr. Dan K Ramsey
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Keywords

  • biomechanics
  • population
  • injury
  • modelling
  • performance
  • accident

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21 pages, 4765 KiB  
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ATD Biodynamics During Lateral Impact for USAF Neck Injury Criteria
by Chris Perry, John Buhrman, Casey Pirnstill and John McIntire
Safety 2019, 5(4), 71; https://doi.org/10.3390/safety5040071 - 22 Oct 2019
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Abstract
Research was conducted involving a series of lateral impact tests on a horizontal sled facility by scientists at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). The purpose of the research was to conduct an assessment of the biodynamic response of an anthropomorphic test device [...] Read more.
Research was conducted involving a series of lateral impact tests on a horizontal sled facility by scientists at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). The purpose of the research was to conduct an assessment of the biodynamic response of an anthropomorphic test device (ATD) to support the development of AFRL neck injury criteria. Impacts were completed using a 50th male Hybrid III aerospace ATD due to this ATD being used by the USAF to qualify and evaluate ejection systems. A test matrix was developed to assess ATD response as a function of various seat configurations which were an approximation of the seat configurations used by the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) for previously conducted lateral impact tests of PMHS subjects (post-mortem human subjects). The specially fabricated seat configurations were a rigid seat fixture with a 5-point harness and a padded rigid seat with a 3-point harness. The input acceleration pulses were trapezoidal in shape and varied in peak magnitude from 8.5 to 17 G. The rigid and padded seat configurations both generated fairly linear ATD responses across the input acceleration range. The ATD’s response with the padded seat and the 3-point restraint was greater than the ATD’s response with the rigid seat and the 5-point restraint with the upper neck. The My torque showed the greatest increase from the rigid seat configuration to the padded seat configuration. This highlights the importance of a proper restraint and the importance of controlling the motion of the torso since it could reduce the loads and torques of the unrestrained head and neck, resulting in a lower probability of injury. The lateral impact program with the ATD provided critical impact data to fill data gaps that support the development of the ATD-to-human transfer functions for AFRL’s Multi-Axial Neck Injury Criteria (MANIC) for lateral impact or MANICy calculation. The program also highlighted gaps in human and PMHS head response data in identical lateral impact configurations that would not only improve the current MANICy transfer function but would allow the investigation of the efficacy of using the 6F-MANICy to replace the current MANICy. Full article
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