Head injury of crew members in tracked vehicles subjected to mine blast is investigated. The crew members may suffer various impacts during a mine blast, for instance a collision of the head with the roof of the vehicle. The acceleration of the vehicle is derived from the finite element simulation of a tracked vehicle subjected to a mine blast. The collision of the ceiling of the vehicle with the head is modeled as a contact of the head with a rigid body. A morphologically sophisticated finite element head model is adopted. The head injury is assessed in view of various head response quantities such as the intracranial pressure, the stress in the brain and the skull, as well as the maximum strain rate in the brain.
Keywords:
Finite Element Method (FEM); head injury; mine blast; tracked vehicle