The influence of human head tissue properties on intracranial pressure response during direct head impact
by Jesse Ruan, Priya Prasad
International Journal of Vehicle Safety (IJVS), Vol. 1, No. 4, 2006

Abstract: The influence of human head tissue properties on intracranial pressure response during direct head impact was studied using finite element analysis and Design-of-Experiment (DOE) techniques. A three-factor, three-level factorial experiment design was applied to the skull, cerebrospinal fluid and brain of a finite element human head model to characterise the effects of these tissues on intracranial pressure response of the human head. This study has demonstrated that a DOE approach can provide more modelling information than the approach using one factor at a time. It has also shown that the incompressibility of the brain contributes much more to the variability of coup and contrecoup pressures than other cranial contents (73% and 53%, respectively).

Online publication date: Mon, 06-Nov-2006

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