Feasibility Study for a Personal-Computer Based Head-Spine Model.

Abstract

Biodynamic Research Corporation (BRC) of San Antonio, TX, completed an SBIR Phase I project to port the Air Force's Head-Spine Model (HSM) to a PC-DOS environment and provide a recommended roadmap for the future of the HSM. The impetus for this project was the Air Force's desire to have a software tool capable of modeling the internal forces and motions of the human head and spine during impulsive acceleration events, particularly aircraft ejections. Although models exist to predict the gross motion of a human under acceleration loading such as the Air Force Articulated Total Body (ATB) model, Dynaman, and MADYMO, the Head-Spine Model (HSM) is the only tool able to provide estimates of internal forces. For this reason, the HSM could be valuable to the Air Force and other scientists for simulating acceleration environments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA361167

Entities

People

  • David J. Pancratz
  • John B. Bomar Jr.
  • Linda J. Rogers

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Basic Programming Language
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Experimental Data
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Mainframe Computers
  • Mathematical Models
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Operating Systems
  • Spinal Column
  • Spine
  • Structured Programming
  • Three Dimensional

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Research Science/Academic Research