Reconstruction of the Injury Producing Event of an ATV Accident.
Biomechanics
Principles of biomechanics are used to determine the causes of injuries and important factors governing the nature and severity of these injuries. DRE has extensive experience in evaluating head, neck, torso, abdominal, pelvic and extremity injuries in the automotive, marine, industrial, recreation and domestic environments. In addition, DRE has expertise in the evaluation of safety intervention strategies and devices such as helmets, seatbelts, airbags, machine guarding, and athletic pads and guards. Using a combination of in-depth accident investigation and reconstruction, laboratory experiments, and computational modeling, the important factors governing the accident scenario are defined and the potential effects of injury prevention strategies evaluated.
DRE researchers have published on a broad variety of biomechanical research topics including:
- Using Computational Models in Forensic Investigations
- Cervical Spine injury in the Adult and Pediatric Populations
- Determining Injury Reference Values from Accident Reconstruction
- Aortic Injury
- Pediatric and Adult Head Injury and Skull Fracture
- Ballistic Impacts
- Injury from Falls
- Evaluation of Anthropomorphic Test Devices (“Crash Dummies”)
- Knee, Thigh, and Pelvic Injuries
- Occupant Kinematics
Rib and spine injury depiction.