Franklyn / Lee Military Injury Biomechanics

The Cause and Prevention of Impact Injuries
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4987-4283-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 430 Seiten

Research into the nature, cause and potential for injury during military activity once focused on deceleration during aircraft crashes. More recently, the focus has shifted to overuse, impact, and blast-related injuries. However, much of the data currently available in the impact injury field has been derived from civilian automotive studies, with more recent work focusing on military-specific loading scenarios. Military Injury Biomechanics: The Cause and Prevention of Impact Injuries is a reference manual that synthesizes and aggregates information from a wide array of sources. The beginning chapters provide background and history, and briefly discuss limitations of currently used research tools. An international team of experts have been brought together to review diverse topics including, for example, injuries to different body regions such as head injury biomechanics. The book is meant for researchers, postgraduate students and others working or studying defense and impact injury.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Franklyn, Melanie

Lee, Peter Vee Sin

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Medizintechnik, Biomedizintechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Biotechnologie Medizinische Biotechnologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizintechnik, Biomedizintechnik, Medizinische Werkstoffe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Injury coding and classification. The physics of ballistic and blast threats in the military environment. Injury Criteria for Military Scenarios. The Skull and Brain: Blast and brain injury. The Skull and Brain: Brain injury from helmet backface deformation. The Skull and Brain: Test methods and helmet design. Skull and facial trauma. The Ear: Models for eardrum rupture. The Neck: Traumatic injury to the neck. The Neck: Neck Injury and Pilot Ejection. The Thorocolumbar Spine: Cadaveric testing. The Thorocolumbar Spine: Injury Criteria for traumatic spinal injury. The Thorax: BABT and chest injury. The Thorax: Theoretical Models for blast lung injury. The Thorax: Computer modelling of blast lung injury. The Abdomen: Abdominal injury from armour backface deformation. The lower extremities: Cadaveric impacts to simulate lower limb injuries in mine blasts. The lower extremities: Crash test dummy legs and injury criteria. The lower extremities: Computer models of the lower limbs for military scenarios

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Melanie Franklyn is a Research Scientist in Injury Biomechanics at the Defence Science & Technology Organisation (DSTO) Australia (2010-), conducting research on military helmets and brain injury using sophisticated computer models, injury assessment in blast events, computer models for ballistic injury assessment and injury coding. She is also currently an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Melbourne. Melanie was previously a Research Fellow at the Monash University Accident Research Centre (2001-2009 inclusive) where her research focused on impact injuries in automotive crashes. She is a Certified Abbreviated Injury Scale Specialist and conducts courses in injury coding.

Professor Peter Lee is currently a Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Melbourne. His research covers several areas of biomedical engineering including impact biomechanics and orthopaedics. He is currently conducting DSTOsponsored research on ballistic impacts to helmets and has funding from the Defence Health Foundation for research on combat helmet design. Peter was previously employed at the DSO National Laboratories in Singapore (2002-2008) where he was Head of the Bioenginering Laboratory and conducted research on military injury prediction using both experiments and biomechanical models.