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Biomechanical Response and Injury Tolerance of the Thorax in Twelve Sled Side Impacts
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Stapp Car Crash Conference
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Twelve side impact sled tests were performed using a horizontally accelerated sled and a Heidelberg-type seat fixture. In these tests the subject's whole body impacted a sidewall with one of three surface conditions: 1) a flat, rigid side wall, 2) a side wall with a 6″ pelvic offset, or 3) a flat, padded side wall. This series of runs provided a good test of how injury criteria perform under a variety of impact surface conditions. In this study thoracic injury criteria based on force, acceleration, compression, and velocity x compression (VC) were evaluated. Maximum compression and VCmax proved to be the best injury indicators in this series. Biomechanical response and injury tolerance are also presented.
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Cavanaugh, J., Walilko, T., Malhotra, A., Zhu, Y. et al., "Biomechanical Response and Injury Tolerance of the Thorax in Twelve Sled Side Impacts," SAE Technical Paper 902307, 1990, https://doi.org/10.4271/902307.Also In
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