... picture of human seating force distribution. This finding is especially important in seating environments where foot-to-floor contact is a necessity, such as in automobiles, office seating design, sewing industries, and aspects of seating for the disabled. Another finding during articulation changes...

... an automobile collision can cause permanent impairment and disability 1 2 3 4 and rank second in vehicle injury cost 5 6 . Although seatbelts and airbags ease injuries to life-threatening organs, they do little to avert lower extremity injuries 7 8 9 . Not surprisingly, injuries to the extremities...

.... Sacks. 12 February 2002 26 November 2003 04 05 2004 brain road accidents automobiles sport biomechanics biological tissues finite element analysis statistical analysis kinematics Traumatic brain injury (TBI) due to blunt impact is a major cause of morbidity...

... and peak change in angular velocity without causing high peak forces is the one that produces the lowest possible HIC 36 without bottoming out in the FMH test. Head injuries caused by impact with upper interior structures of automobiles are a serious problem. In the U.S., impacts with hard structures...