Car accident reconstruction and head injury correlation

Chawla, A.; Grover, V.; Mukherjee, S.; Hassan, A. M.

Affiliations

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, 110016, India

²BASC University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

Abstract and keywords

Estimation of brain damage remains an elusive issue and controlled tests leading to brain damage cannot be carried out on volunteers. This study reconstructs real-world car accidents to estimate the kinematics of the head impact. This data is to be used to estimate the head injury measures through computer simulations and then correlate reported skull as well as brain damage to impact measures; whence validating the head FE model (Willinger, IJCrash 8:605–617, 2003). In this study, two crash cases were reconstructed. Injury correlation was successful in one of these cases in that the injuries to the brain of one of the car drivers could be correlated in terms of type, location and severity when compared with the tolerance limits of relevant injury parameters (Willinger, IJCrash 8:605–617, 2003).

Keywords: Crash reconstruction; Frontal impact; Head injury; Finite element method

Links

DOI: 10.1007/s40032-012-0048-7

History

Received: 2012-05-31

Accepted: 2012-10-30

Online: 2013-06-02

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