A Personal Computer-Based Head-Spine Model

Abstract

Biodynamic Research Corporation (BRC) of San Antonio, TX, completed an SBIR Phase II project to port the Air Force's Head-Spine Model (HSM) to a personal computer environment, improve certain features of the software, and add a user-friendly interface. 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 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
Sep 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA361188

Entities

People

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

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Database Management Systems
  • Ejection Seats
  • Mathematical Models
  • Medical Personnel
  • Operating Systems
  • Reliability
  • Software Development
  • Software Metrics
  • Spine
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Three Dimensional

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  • Research Science/Academic Research
  • Software Engineering.