Injury biomechanics - human thresholds
Docent Lecture: Johan Davidsson, Vehicle Safety
Title: Injury biomechanics - human thresholds
Background: Johan Davidsson defended his Ph.D. thesis in Biomechanics in 2000 on the design of a crash test dummy for evaluation of seat system performance in rear‐end crashes; the BioRID II. Since then he has taught graduate students, supervised PhD‐students, and performed research with partners inside and outside of Chalmers. The interest and activities have mainly been in the field of biomechanics; prevention of brain, thorax and neck injuries through providing an improved understanding of biomechanics, improved test protocols and tools that can be used in the development of products with superior passive safety. Other focus areas are pedestrian safety, human body models for the development of integrated safety. The applications are mainly in the field of vehicle safety but also in the field of leisure, sports and military.
Abstract:
Injurious experiments cannot be performed on humans. Therefore, various models are commonly used to study injury biomechanics. This docent lecture will focus on how we are to interpret and use biomechanical data and statistical data from accidents. Are all data suitable as crash test dummy and human body model evaluation data? Can all data be used for the development of injury risk thresholds? What type of research is need to make more biomechanical data useful?