[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 …

Mechanics of the brain: perspectives, challenges, and opportunities

A Goriely, MGD Geers, GA Holzapfel… - … and modeling in …, 2015 - Springer
The human brain is the continuous subject of extensive investigation aimed at
understanding its behavior and function. Despite a clear evidence that mechanical factors …

Mechanical properties of gray and white matter brain tissue by indentation

S Budday, R Nay, R De Rooij, P Steinmann… - Journal of the …, 2015 - Elsevier
The mammalian brain is composed of an outer layer of gray matter, consisting of cell bodies,
dendrites, and unmyelinated axons, and an inner core of white matter, consisting primarily of …

Computational modelling of traumatic brain injury predicts the location of chronic traumatic encephalopathy pathology

M Ghajari, PJ Hellyer, DJ Sharp - Brain, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Traumatic brain injury can lead to the neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic
encephalopathy. This condition has a clear neuropathological definition but the relationship …

The mechanics of traumatic brain injury: a review of what we know and what we need to know for reducing its societal burden

DF Meaney, B Morrison… - Journal of …, 2014 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a significant public health problem, on pace to become the
third leading cause of death worldwide by 2020. Moreover, emerging evidence linking …

[HTML][HTML] The role of mechanics during brain development

S Budday, P Steinmann, E Kuhl - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Convolutions are a classical hallmark of most mammalian brains. Brain surface morphology
is often associated with intelligence and closely correlated with neurological dysfunction …

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 …

Development of a finite element model for blast brain injury and the effects of CSF cavitation

MB Panzer, BS Myers, BP Capehart… - Annals of biomedical …, 2012 - Springer
Blast-related traumatic brain injury is the most prevalent injury for combat personnel seen in
the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, yet as a research community, we still do not fully …

Mechanisms of primary blast-induced traumatic brain injury: insights from shock-wave research

A Nakagawa, GT Manley, AD Gean, K Ohtani… - Journal of …, 2011 - liebertpub.com
Traumatic brain injury caused by explosive or blast events is traditionally divided into four
phases: primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary blast injury. These phases of blast …

Strain and rate-dependent neuronal injury in a 3D in vitro compression model of traumatic brain injury

E Bar-Kochba, MT Scimone, JB Estrada, C Franck - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract In the United States over 1.7 million cases of traumatic brain injury are reported
yearly, but predictive correlation of cellular injury to impact tissue strain is still lacking …