Review of non-penetrating ballistic testing techniques for protection assessment: From biological data to numerical and physical surrogates

M Chaufer, R Delille, B Bourel… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Human surrogates have long been employed to simulate human behaviour, beginning in
the automotive industry and now widely used throughout the safety framework to estimate …

Assessment of thorax finite element model response for behind armor blunt trauma impact loading using an epidemiological database

DS Cronin, MC Bustamante… - Journal of …, 2021 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Nonperforating ballistic impacts on thoracic armor can cause blunt injuries, known as behind-
armor blunt trauma (BABT). To evaluate the potential for this injury, the back face …

A comparative study of design optimisation methodologies for side-impact crashworthiness, using injury-based versus energy-based criterion

MF Horstemeyer, XC Ren, H Fang, E Acar… - International Journal of …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
The tension between occupant safety during a crash and lightweight designs continues to
be an important driver of modern vehicle designs. While occupant safety may be defined …

Investigation of occupant arm position and door properties on thorax kinematics in side impact crash scenarios–comparison of ATD and human models

D Gierczycka, B Watson, D Cronin - International journal of …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Side impact continues to be a significant source of vehicle occupant injuries and fatalities
requiring an improved understanding of response sensitivity to occupant position and the …

Importance of impact boundary conditions and pre-crash arm position for the prediction of thoracic response to pendulum, side sled, and near side vehicle impacts

D Gierczycka, D Cronin - Computer methods in biomechanics and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Two contemporary finite element Human Body Models (HBMs) were subjected to five lateral
impact scenarios to investigate the sensitivity of thorax response to impact scenario and pre …

Development and validation of a human biomechanical model for rib fracture and thorax injuries in blunt impact

Z Cai, F Lan, J Chen - Computer methods in biomechanics and …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
From 1990 to approximately 50,000–120,000 people die annually of road traffic accidents in
China. Traffic accidents are the main cause of death of Chinese adults aged 15–45 years …

In vivo characterization of mechanical tissue properties of internal organs using endoscopic microscopy and inverse finite element analysis

D Schwenninger, S Schumann, J Guttmann - Journal of biomechanics, 2011 - Elsevier
Knowledge about mechanical tissue properties is required for functional modelling and
simulating of tissue and organ responses to external mechanical stress. To get the right …

[PDF][PDF] Explicit finite element method applied to impact biomechanics problems

DS Cronin - IRCOBI conference proceedings, 2011 - ircobi.org
Biofidelic numerical models require accurate geometry, material properties, representative
loading conditions, and proper verification and validation based on relevant experimental …

Coupled human body and side impact model to predict thoracic response

BM Campbell, DS Cronin - International journal of crashworthiness, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Significant advances have been made in automotive safety; however, thoracic injuries
resulting from side impact collisions continue to be a leading cause of fatality and severe …

Evaluation of the safety and efficacy of soft tissue augmentation with a compressive-resistant collagen matrix in a nonhuman primate model

AS Herford, K Nguyen, M Miller, R Tandon… - Journal of Oral and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Purpose The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the
compression-resistant collagen-based cross-linked matrix for augmentation of maxillary and …