Relationship Between Neck Strength, Anthropometric Parameters, and Gender with Head Motion Under Impact Acceleration.

Abstract

With the opening of the fighter cockpit to women, it is imperative to expand the current data base of responses of females to high impact acceleration environments. It is hypothesized that since women tend to have less upper-body strength than men, they may not be able to brace their heads as effectively against the loads which occur during impact and escape. This may be exacerbated by the changing center of gravity of helmets due to technological advances (e.g., night vision, head-up displays, etc). The objective of the current experimental effort is to examine the ability of subjects of both sexes to brace against an impact acceleration in the X or Y axes, and to attempt to identify a correlation between such ability, static strength measurements, anthropometric measurements, or any combination thereof.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA300231

Entities

People

  • Charles E. Morris

Organizations

  • Armstrong Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acquisition
  • Body Regions
  • Cells
  • Center Of Gravity
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Analysis
  • Databases
  • Impact Acceleration
  • Laboratory Animals
  • Load Cells
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Night Vision
  • Recombinant Dna
  • Shoulder
  • Static Tests

Readers

  • Exercise and Sports Science.
  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).