Reconstruction of head injury cases arising from falls using the UCD brain trauma model

Doorly, M. C.; Horgan, T. J.; Gilchrist, M. D.

Affiliations

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

Abstract and keywords

While Road Traffic Accidents continue to be the largest contributor to head injury, falls are usually second in prevalence. This paper looks at numerical modelling techniques, namely multibody body dynamics and finite element methods, in order to reconstruct two real-life accident cases arising from falls. Various modelling strategies are explored, and the results are compared with existing published brain injury tolerance levels.

Keywords: impact biomechanics, falls, multibody dynamics, accident reconstruction, head injury, Finite Element Method (FEM)

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DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3796-1_44

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