Neck forces and moments of human volunteers and post mortem human surrogates in low-speed frontal sled tests.

CONCLUSIONS: This study examined the effects of active muscles, in the form of conscious and reflexive muscle activity, on the biomechanical response of occupants in low-speed frontal sled tests. Although active bracing did not result in significantly different peak neck loads or moments, the timing of these peak values were affected by muscle condition. The findings of this study provide insight to the kinetics experienced during low-speed sled tests and are important to consider when refining and validating computational models and ATDs used to assess injury risk in automotive collisions. PMID: 27586115 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research