Models for Aircrew Safety Assessment: Uses, Limitations and Requirements
Abstract
These proceedings include the Technical Evaluation Report, a tribute to Dr. Henning E. von Gierke, Director Emeritus, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), OH, three Keynote Addresses and 32 invited papers of a Specialists' Meeting sponsored by the NATO/RTO Human Factors and Medicine Panel. It was held at WPAFB from 26-28 October 1998. Significant advances have been made in modelling human physical and physiological responses to extreme environments. Technological advances in computer speed and power have made modelling a feasible research and design tool. Computer simulations are being used extensively for predicting human physical and physiological responses, for reducing testing requirements, for rapidly designing improved protective systems, and for performing human safety-systems analyses. A variety of models were reviewed at this Specialists' Meeting including lumped-parameter, rigid-body, finite-element, statistical, physiologic, and empirical models. Topics covered included modelling human-body responses to environmental stressors, and the systems with which the body interacts to: impact, emergency escape, sustained acceleration, vibration, mechanical shock, motion sickness, high altitude, blast, extreme thermal conditions, directed energy and live firing. These proceedings will be of interest to military and civilian scientists and engineers interested in exploiting data bases, tolerance criteria, and new models and methods in the research of physiological systems and in simulating the design, test set up and evaluation of safety systems.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1999
- Accession Number
- ADA368371
Entities
Organizations
- NATO Science and Technology Organization