Samenvatting
The Mean Strain Criterion (MSC) is now over ten years old. This head injury criterion was formulated on many head impacts to subhuman primates and then extrapolated to humans by dimensional analysis. This study, based on the MSC concept, inputs the head impact force from cadaver head impacts into the MSC mechanical impedance two-mass head models to generate a new criterion, "The New Mean Strain Criterion" (NMSC). This was done by remodeling the old MSC head impedance model for four directions. The results show that given a force-time trace for humans or an accelaration-time trace for dummies, the NMSC is useful in predicting the potential for injury during a translational head impact.