Results of Experimental Head Impacts on Cadavers: The Various Data Obtained and Their Relations to Some Measured Physical Parameters

780887

02/01/1978

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22nd Stapp Car Crash Conference
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This report describes the results of 42 tests involving direct impacts on the head, performed on fresh, unembalmed, perfused cadavers, helmeted or not helmeted, by means of a free-fall procedure.
Three main kinds of impact were investigated: frontal, temporal-parietal, and frontal-facial.
The results yield a typology of lesions (associated with various test conditions) that differs from the one described in earlier, similar reports published by A.M. Nahum and R.L. Stalnaker.
The measurements confirm a tolerance level of HIC>1500 in the case involving skull impacts under the conditions specified in the text.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/780887
Pages
44
Citation
Got, C., Patel, A., Fayon, A., Tarrière, C. et al., "Results of Experimental Head Impacts on Cadavers: The Various Data Obtained and Their Relations to Some Measured Physical Parameters," SAE Technical Paper 780887, 1978, https://doi.org/10.4271/780887.
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Published
Feb 1, 1978
Product Code
780887
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English