A New Methodology for Health Hazard Assessment of Repeated Shock in Military Tactical Ground Vehicles

Abstract

This paper summarizes the outcome of an Army research program that culminated with adoption of a new standard of the International Standards Organization (ISO) and the development of a new methodology for health hazard assessment (HHA) of repeated shocks encountered in Army tactical ground vehicles (TGVs). This fills a gap in the existing ISO whole -body vibration standard, which does not adequately predict TGV occupants' lower back injuries that may be due to repeated shocks. Both Part 1 and the new Part 5 of ISO 2631 standard were implemented in an interactive graphical user interface (GUI) tool and transitioned to users who conduct HHAs of Army systems. As reported here, the GUI tool was used to compare the two standards. The comparison shows that the old standard often fails to detect adverse health effects of repeated shocks, which are clearly identified and accounted for by the new standard method.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA433103

Entities

People

  • A. M. Breaux-sims
  • B. A. Bumgardner
  • E. E. Hiltz
  • N. M. Alem

Organizations

  • United States Army Aeromedical Research Lab

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Armored Vehicles
  • Data Analysis
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Light Armored Vehicles
  • Military Vehicles
  • Neural Networks
  • Recurrent Neural Networks
  • Risk Factors
  • Spine
  • Spreadsheet Software
  • Standards
  • Test Facilities
  • Vehicles
  • Vibration

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