Research Catalog

Title

Accidental injury : biomechanics and prevention / Alan M. Nahum, John W. Melvin, editors.

Publication

New York : Springer, c2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Melvin, John.
• Nahum, Alan M., 1931-2018.

Description

xiii, 637 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Subjects

• Wounds and Injuries > prevention & control
• Biomechanical Phenomena
• Crash injuries > Psychological aspects
• Human mechanics
• Wounds and injuries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. The Application of Biomechanics to the Understanding of Injury and Healing / Y. C. Fung -- Ch. 2. Instrumentation in Experimental Design / Warren N. Hardy -- Ch. 3. The Use of Public Crash Data in Biomechanical Research / Charles P. Compton -- Ch. 4. Anthropomorphic Test Devices / Harold J. Mertz -- Ch. 5. Injury Risk Assessments Based on Dummy Responses / Harold J. Mertz -- Ch. 6. Radiologic Analysis of Trauma / Mini N. Pathria -- Ch. 7. A Review of Mathematical Occupant Simulation Models / Priya Prasad and Clifford C. Chou -- Ch. 8. Occupant Restraint Systems / Rolf Eppinger -- Ch. 9. Airbag Inflation-Induced Injury Biomechanics / John W. Melvin and Harold J. Mertz -- Ch. 10. Biomechanics of Bone / Mark A. Gomez and Alan M. Nahum -- Ch. 11. Biomechanics of Soft Tissue / Roger C. Haut -- Ch. 12. Skull and Facial Bone Trauma / Douglas Allsop and Kelly Kennett -- Ch. 13. Brain-Injury Biomechanics / John W. Melvin and James W. Lighthall --
• Ch. 14. Biomechanics of Head Trauma: Head Protection / James A. Newman -- Ch. 15. Biomechanical Aspects of Cervical Trauma / James H. McElhaney, Roger W. Nightingale and Beth A. Winkelstein / [et al.] -- Ch. 16. Biomechanics of Thoracic Trauma / John M. Cavanaugh -- Ch. 17. Biomechanics of Abdominal Trauma / Stephen W. Rouhana -- Ch. 18. Injury to the Thoracolumbar Spine and Pelvis / Albert I. King -- Ch. 19. Injury to the Extremities / Robert S. Levine -- Ch. 20. Child Passenger Protection / Kathleen Weber -- Ch. 21. Pediatric Biomechnics / Narayan Yoganandan, Srirangam Kumaresan and Frank A. Pintar / [et al.] -- Ch. 22. Vehicle Interactions with Pedestrians / Roger A. Saul, John F. Edlefson and Kristie L. Jarrett / [et al.].

ISBN

0387988203 (hard cover : alk. paper)

LCCN

00024950

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries