An advanced 50th percentile male mechanical head/neck system has been developed which is capable of duplicating the responses of human head/neck kinematics and dynamics during multidirectional impacts. The head/neck system was based on the head and neck originally designed for the THOR Alpha advanced frontal dummy. The new system can be utilized on the THOR dummy, but can also be directly retrofitted to the standard 50th percentile male Hybrid III dummy. In this paper, an overview of the new head/neck system design is presented. Simulation methods utilized for design and validation purposes are discussed. Results of dynamic pendulum and multidirectional mini-sled tests are also provided. Finally, responses are compared with benchmark human volunteer data. For the covering abstract see ITRD E825082.
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