Injury Biomechanics
The specialist area of Injury Biomechanics has been applied to assessing and reducing injury potential for various products and environments (protective clothing, vehicles, aircraft and high injury risk environments such as playgrounds). Typical investigations include injury prediction to assist in re-design or post event analysis to identify likely causes of injury. Our core services provide us with state-of-the-art techniques to analyse injuries to occupants within high injury risk environments.
Computer simulation
Computer human body models are applied to predict injury from simulated blunt impact scenarios such as vehicle collisions, fragments projected to the head and chest from bomb blasts, analysis of protective clothing and impacts due to falls. 3-D wound models can be reconstructed where CT/MRI data is available from actual injuries or physical simulation.
Physical Simulation
Synthetic simulants can be used to simulate specific injury types (e.g. penetration injury) and provide injury tolerances where data is currently unavailable. The resulting trauma can be recorded with CT/MRI scans and converted into 3-D wound models. These can be used directly to assist in injury predictions and/or to develop and validate computer models of injury scenarios.
LiDAR Scanning and 3-D Reconstruction and Visualisation
LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) is a type of laser scanning that records dimensional coordinates and colour data for each point to facilitate 3D reconstruction of environments.
3-D Visualisation
The final scenarios can be animated in 3-D using data collected from computer modeling, physical simulation and LiDAR scanning. These animations illustrate the final predicted injury scenario including the external environment, injury agents, occupant position and orientation, injury simulation and 3-D wound models of actual injuries (post event analsysis) or predicted injuries (prediction for re-design).
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Contact email: injurybiomechanics@arup.com
