Response of an artificial thorax system to impact.

Author(s)
Shew, H.C. & Goldsmith, W.
Year
Abstract

Human thoracic models constructed of artificial materials were subjected to blunt impact by means of an automobile steering wheel striking the replicas at various velocities The experimental results indicate that the bursting of the heart due to impact is more likely to occur during diastole than systole. Vessel strains were most significant in the aorta and the superior and the inferior venae cavae.

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B 25143 (In: B 25121) /84/ IRRD 293950
Source

In: Proceedings of the 1986 International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Impacts, Zürich Switzerland, 2-4 September 1986, P-303-318, 2 fig., 13 graph., 1 tab., 18 ref.

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