Guidelines for Safe Human Exposure to Impact Acceleration. Update A

Abstract

Tolerance levels for living human volunteers are defined and developed for minimum risk injury. The experimentally safe levels of impact, derived from a variety of sources, are suggested as guidelines for torso- restrained volunteers, where the freely moving head and neck are the anatomical segments most at risk. These recommended limits are no greater than the maximum exposures already experienced by Naval Biodynamics Laboratory's volunteers. No injuries have been sustained at these levels. Keywords: Acceleration tolerance; Impact; Acceleration; Volunteers; Injury tolerance. (kt)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA215287

Entities

People

  • David L. Matson
  • Marc S. Weiss
  • Stephen T. Mawn

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Angular Acceleration
  • Animals
  • Bone Fractures
  • Head Injuries
  • Health
  • Health Services
  • Impact Acceleration
  • Injury Prevention
  • Medical Personnel
  • Nervous System
  • Spinal Cord
  • Spine
  • Wounds And Injuries

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