Coupling lateral bending and shearing mechanisms to define knee injury criteria for pedestrian safety.

CONCLUSIONS: The developed injury criterion correlated the combined joint kinematics to initial knee injuries based on subsegment tests and FE simulations conducted with a biofidelic lower limb model. This provides a valuable way of predicting the risk of knee injury associated with vehicle-pedestrian crashes and thereby represents a further step to promote the design of vehicle countermeasures for pedestrian safety. PMID: 23531261 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - Category: Occupational Health Authors: Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research