...Austin Azar; Kapil Bharadwaj Bhagavathula; James Hogan; Simon Ouellet; Sikhanda Satapathy; Christopher R. Dennison Military personnel sustain head and brain injuries as a result of ballistic, blast, and blunt impact threats. Combat helmets are meant to protect the heads of these personnel during...

... and neck surrogates for at-risk populations. 1 Corresponding author. Manuscript received November 11, 2018; final manuscript received February 21, 2019; published online May 23, 2019. Assoc. Editor: Beth A. Winkelstein. 11 11 2018 21 02 2019 headgear helmet impact testing...

...Henry Y. Yu; Christopher R. Dennison There is a scant biomechanical literature that tests, in a laboratory setting, whether or not determinants of helmet fit affect biomechanical parameters associated with injury. Using conventional cycling helmets and repeatable models of the human head and neck...

... football. Impacts were monitored using a commercially available accelerometer array installed inside the helmets of 17 players aged 12–14 years. A total of 4678 impacts were measured, with an average (±standard deviation) of 275 ± 190 impacts per player. The average of impact distributions for each player...

...Chih-Han Chang; Li-Tung Chang; Guan-Liang Chang; Shyh-Chour Huang; Chiou-Hua Wang The chin bar of a motorcycle helmet protects the rider from facial and head injuries. To evaluate the protective performance of chin bars against head injuries from facial impacts, an explicit finite element method...

...Jennifer Reid, Research Assistant; Eric L. Wang, Assistant Professor This article describes the design and development of a system that is capable of quantifying the thermal comfort of bicycle helmets. The motivation for the development of the system stems from the desire both to increase helmet...