Abstract
The increasing interest in the research field of biomechanics or, more specifically, injury mechanics, in the past" few decades has already produced a great amount of data. Various, more or less successful, attempts have been made to integrate this mass of data into consistent theories for injury mechanisms, sometimes resulting in relatively simple injury criteria. Since it is common knowledge that the existing injury criteria yield predictions that are only partially consistent with "reality", we feel justified in making another attempt; the hereby presented project should be considered as such.