Accelerations relevant to blunt trauma: theory and data
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2015
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Hutchinson, T.P.
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Industrial Health, 2015; 53(2):176-177
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T.P. Hutchinson
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Maximum acceleration and the Head Injury Criterion (HIC) are both used as indicators of likely head injury severity. A dataset has previously been published of impacts of an instrumented missile on four ground surfaces having a layer of between 0 and 16 cm of sand. The dataset is compared with recently-developed theory that predicts power-function dependence of maximum acceleration and HIC on drop height. That prediction was supported by the data. The surfaces differed in respect of the exponents estimated.
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©2015 National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health