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Oblique impact responses of Hybrid III and a new headform with more biofidelic coefficient of friction and moments of inertia
Imperial Coll London, Dyson Sch Design Engn, HEAD Lab, London, England..
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH), Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems, Neuronic Engineering. MIPS AB, Taby, Sweden..ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4798-4604
Imperial Coll London, Dyson Sch Design Engn, HEAD Lab, London, England..
2022 (English)In: Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, E-ISSN 2296-4185, Vol. 10, article id 860435Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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New oblique impact methods for evaluating head injury mitigation effects of helmets are emerging, which mandate measuring both translational and rotational kinematics of the headform. These methods need headforms with biofidelic mass, moments of inertia (MoIs), and coefficient of friction (CoF). To fulfill this need, working group 11 of the European standardization head protection committee (CEN/TC158) has been working on the development of a new headform with realistic MoIs and CoF, based on recent biomechanics research on the human head. In this study, we used a version of this headform (Cellbond) to test a motorcycle helmet under the oblique impact at 8 m/s at five different locations. We also used the Hybrid III headform, which is commonly used in the helmet oblique impact. We tested whether there is a difference between the predictions of the headforms in terms of injury metrics based on head kinematics, including peak translational and rotational acceleration, peak rotational velocity, and BrIC (brain injury criterion). We also used the Imperial College finite element model of the human head to predict the strain and strain rate across the brain and tested whether there is a difference between the headforms in terms of the predicted strain and strain rate. We found that the Cellbond headform produced similar or higher peak translational accelerations depending on the impact location (-3.2% in the front-side impact to 24.3% in the rear impact). The Cellbond headform, however, produced significantly lower peak rotational acceleration (-41.8% in a rear impact to -62.7% in a side impact), peak rotational velocity (-29.5% in a side impact to -47.6% in a rear impact), and BrIC (-29% in a rear-side impact to -45.3% in a rear impact). The 90th percentile values of the maximum brain strain and strain rate were also significantly lower using this headform. Our results suggest that MoIs and CoF have significant effects on headform rotational kinematics, and consequently brain deformation, during the helmeted oblique impact. Future helmet standards and rating methods should use headforms with realistic MoIs and CoF (e.g., the Cellbond headform) to ensure more accurate representation of the head in laboratory impact tests.

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Frontiers Media SA , 2022. Vol. 10, article id 860435
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headform, oblique impact, helmet, brain injury, head injury, rotational acceleration
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Infrastructure Engineering
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-320313DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2022.860435ISI: 000860346200001PubMedID: 36159665Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85138491087OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-320313DiVA, id: diva2:1705856
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