Effects of bodyweight, height, and ribcage area moment of inertia on blunt chest impact response.

Author(s)
Kimpara, H. Iwamoto, M.T. Watanabe, I. Lee, J.B. Yang, K.H. & King, A.I.
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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of bodyweight, height and ribcage area moment of inertia on human chest impact responses in frontal pendulum impacts. A series of parametric studies was conducted using a commercially available three-dimensional (3D) finite element (FE) model of the whole human body, Total Human Model for Safety (THUMS). It wasfound that the maximum chest compression ratio, the best predictor of thenumber of rib fractures, was correlated with the area moment of inertia of the ribcage. For the covering abstract see ITRD E134311.

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C 43342 (In: C 43328 CD-ROM) /80 /84 / ITRD E134325
Source

In: Proceedings of the 2005 International IRCOBI Conference on the biomechanics of impact, Prague (Czech Republic), September 21-23, 2005, 11 p.

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