Currently, the Brinkley Dynamic Response Criteria (BDRC) is used to assess the risk of thoraco-lumbar spinal injury for astronauts. The BDRC has been validated for predicting injury in military aircraft ejections (Brinkley, 1968; Brinkley and Schaffer, 1971). The objective of this study was to use the injurious data behind the BDRC and subinjurious human-volunteer data to develop an injury risk function for the Test device for Human Occupant Restraint (THOR) to predict probability of thoraco-lumbar spine injury during space vehicle landings.


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    Title :

    Development of a THOR Anthropometric Test Device Lumbar Spine Injury Risk Function


    Contributors:
    Jessica Wells (author) / Bryan Blette (author) / Nate Newby (author) / Jeff Somers (author)

    Conference:

    SAFE Association 58th Annual Symposium ; 2020 ; Virtual, US


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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