Mechanism for Control of Head and Neck Dynamic Response 841669
A modeling effort has been undertaken at the Naval Biodynamics Laboratory in New Orleans to determine the cause of atypical responses of the head/neck anatomy of certain volunteer subjects to -X vector direction acceleration profiles. The results appear to indicate that these subjects, who had been previously run in the +Y and/or -X+Y vector directions, may have learned to exert purposeful control over their head/neck responses in order to lessen the severity of their exposures. Computer simulations appear to verify the theorized explanation that the subjects “locked” their head/neck joints in anticipation of sled firing, and that the joints remained locked during the initial portion of the run until forces and torques increased to a level which forced their joints to unlock.
Citation: Seemann, M., Lustick, L., and Frisch, G., "Mechanism for Control of Head and Neck Dynamic Response," SAE Technical Paper 841669, 1984, https://doi.org/10.4271/841669. Download Citation
Author(s):
Marjorie R. Seemann, Leonard S. Lustick, Georg D. Frisch
Affiliated:
Naval Biodynamics Laboratory, New Orleans, LA
Pages: 16
Event:
28th Stapp Car Crash Conference (1984)
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Also in:
Twenty-Eighth Stapp Car Crash Conference Proceedings-P-152
Related Topics:
Head
Computer simulation
Neck
Anatomy
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