Stapp Car Crash Journal

The Stapp Association is composed of an autonomous Stapp Advisory Committee and was founded in honor of John Paul Stapp, pioneer researcher of human tolerance to crash decelerations. The Association is dedicated to the dissemination of research findings in impact biomechanics, human tolerance to impact trauma, and crash injury protection. This is achieved primarily through the annual Stapp Car Crash Journal and associated conference.

The scope of material contained in this journal includes new data on the biomechanics of injury and human tolerance, new methods and tools to study the biomechanics of injury, new developments in occupant protection systems, and new concepts on the biomechanics of injury based on experimental and analytical studies. Manuscripts submitted to the Journal are assigned an Associate Editor (a member of the Editorial Board) that will facilitate the peer-review process by inviting reviewers with the appropriate expertise from the scientific community to evaluate the suitability of the manuscript. Accepted papers are invited to present at the annual conference, but conference presentation is not required. Publication of these papers does not constitute endorsement or agreement with their content by the reviewers, The Stapp Association, the publisher, or their members or staff. Opinions and data presented in these papers are the sole responsibility of the authors.