Jaw Loading Response of Current ATDs

2009-01-0388

04/20/2009

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SAE World Congress & Exhibition
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Biomechanical surrogates are used in various forms to study head impact response in automotive applications and for assessing helmet performance. Surrogate headforms include those from the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) and the many variants of the Hybrid III. However, the response of these surrogates to loading at the chin and how that response may affect the loads transferred from the jaw to the rest of the head are unknown. To address part of that question, the current study compares the chin impact response performance of select human surrogates to that of the cadaver.
A selection of Hybrid III and NOCSAE based surrogates with fixed and articulating jaws were tested under drop mass impact conditions that were used to describe post mortem human subject (PMHS) response to impacts at the chin (Craig et al., 2008). Results were compared to the PMHS response with cumulative variance technique (Rhule et al., 2002). A Hybrid III based surrogate headform with an articulating jaw demonstrated the best overall performance of the surrogates evaluated.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2009-01-0388
Pages
13
Citation
Craig, M., Viano, D., and Bir, C., "Jaw Loading Response of Current ATDs," SAE Int. J. Passeng. Cars – Mech. Syst. 2(1):587-599, 2009, https://doi.org/10.4271/2009-01-0388.
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Published
Apr 20, 2009
Product Code
2009-01-0388
Content Type
Journal Article
Language
English

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