Head injuries are received by 72% of injured occupants during injury producing accidents, and account for about half of all motor vehicle accident fatalities; face is considerably weaker than cranial vault under concentrated loads, but nearly equal to cranial vault in strength when load is well distributed; energy absorbing padding should be used for cranial vault impact and load distributing padding for face impact; test procedures to measure both energy absorption and load distribution are described, and evaluation criteria shown; other factors that affect padding, such as temperature and cover stock material, are discussed.
Bio-engineering approach to crash padding
SAE -- Paper
SAE Meeting ; 1968 Safety devices
1968
10 pages
Conference paper
English
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