Human head-neck kinematic response to impact acceleration:​ comparison of oblique to combined frontal and lateral response

Guccione, Jr, Salvadore J.<sup>1</sup>; Kaminsky, Edit J.<sup>2</sup>

Affiliations

¹National Biodynamics Laboratory

²Department of Electrical Engineering, University of New Orleans, U.S.A.

Abstract

This paper relates human oblique head-neck kinematics to human frontal and lateral head-neck kinematics for three subjects of varying anthropometry. Head-neck kinematic response to indirect impact acceleration for an oblique test is compared to the superposition of the head/neck behavior of appropriate frontal and lateral tests for the same subject. The results have important implications in terms of the complexity required in the design and validation of omni-directional biofidelic crash test manikins and mathematical models of human head-neck response.

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