Results of Experimental Head Impacts on Cadavers: The Various Data Obtained and Their Relations to Some Measured Physical Parameters
780887
2/1/1978
- Content
- 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.
- 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," 22nd Stapp Car Crash Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, October 24, 1978, https://doi.org/10.4271/780887.