[HTML][HTML] Ballistic helmets: Recent advances in materials, protection mechanisms, performance, and head injury mitigation

Y Li, H Fan, XL Gao - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Combat helmets provide protection against ballistic threats and blunt impact forces, and
wearing them has greatly reduced head injuries and saved lives of many soldiers. With the …

Use of brain biomechanical models for monitoring impact exposure in contact sports

S Ji, M Ghajari, H Mao, RH Kraft… - Annals of Biomedical …, 2022 - Springer
Head acceleration measurement sensors are now widely deployed in the field to monitor
head kinematic exposure in contact sports. The wealth of impact kinematics data provides …

Ranking and rating bicycle helmet safety performance in oblique impacts using eight different brain injury models

M Fahlstedt, F Abayazid, MB Panzer, A Trotta… - Annals of biomedical …, 2021 - Springer
Bicycle helmets are shown to offer protection against head injuries. Rating methods and test
standards are used to evaluate different helmet designs and safety performance. Both strain …

Six degree-of-freedom measurements of human mild traumatic brain injury

F Hernandez, LC Wu, MC Yip, K Laksari… - Annals of biomedical …, 2015 - Springer
This preliminary study investigated whether direct measurement of head rotation improves
prediction of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Although many studies have implicated …

Brain neurotrauma: molecular, neuropsychological, and rehabilitation aspects

FH Kobeissy - 2015 - books.google.com
With the contribution from more than one hundred CNS neurotrauma experts, this book
provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account on the latest developments in the area of …

Laboratory validation of two wearable sensor systems for measuring head impact severity in football players

GP Siegmund, KM Guskiewicz, SW Marshall… - Annals of biomedical …, 2016 - Springer
Wearable sensors can measure head impact frequency and magnitude in football players.
Our goal was to quantify the impact detection rate and validity of the direction and peak …

An analytical review of the numerical methods used for finite element modeling of traumatic brain injury

JS Giudice, W Zeng, T Wu, A Alshareef… - Annals of biomedical …, 2019 - Springer
Dozens of finite element models of the human brain have been developed for providing
insight into the mechanical response of the brain during impact. Many models used in …

Constitutive modeling of brain tissue: current perspectives

R de Rooij, E Kuhl - Applied Mechanics Reviews, 2016 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Modeling the mechanical response of the brain has become increasingly important over the
past decades. Although mechanical stimuli to the brain are small under physiological …

Assessment of kinematic brain injury metrics for predicting strain responses in diverse automotive impact conditions

LF Gabler, JR Crandall, MB Panzer - Annals of biomedical engineering, 2016 - Springer
Numerous injury criteria have been developed to predict brain injury using the kinematic
response of the head during impact. Each criterion utilizes a metric that is some …

Group-wise evaluation and comparison of white matter fiber strain and maximum principal strain in sports-related concussion

S Ji, W Zhao, JC Ford, JG Beckwith… - Journal of …, 2015 - liebertpub.com
Sports-related concussion is a major public health problem in the United States and yet its
biomechanical mechanisms remain unclear. In vitro studies demonstrate axonal elongation …