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Re: Injuries with seatbelt

Ed Phillips (edphill@aol.com)
Fri, 25 Apr 1997 10:21:33 -0400 (EDT)

Edward Ernest

Try specifically the threads on "Seatbelt Examinations", "Occupant G forces", and "Seatbelts, reclining seat etc." Some of the questions posed will have to be answered by your analysis of the dynamic, e.g., magnitude and direction of the Impulse. Those types of answers can really help piece things together. However, head injury mechanisms may be either direct contact, as in striking a steering wheel or window, or they may be inertial in the form of the brain lagging behind the skull and then catching up when the skull finishes its rotation. (Third collision). Nahum and Melvin's two book's on Accidental Injury are wonderful in the biomechanics and mechanisms topic. The more current one should be available at the SAE site ("Accidental Injury") I believe is the title. The first book, I believe is out of print.

Ernest Edward
Ed Phillips
edphill@aol.com

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