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Contact-Impact Problems

Taylor, Robert L.; Sackman, Jerome L.

UCB/SESM-1978/04, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1978-12, 435 pages

This report describes research on mathematical models for predictive purposes in crash-injury studies. Previous work by the authors is extended and new developments incorporated into a finite-element program for the analysis of biomechanical contact-impact problems.

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/SEMM/SEMM-78-04.pdf (6 MB)