Effects of Skull Stiffness on Intracranial Responses of a Child Head

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10.2991/iccmcee-15.2015.179How to use a DOI?

Keywords

child head; finite element (FE) model; skull stiffness; intracranial response; HIC

Abstract

Skull stiffness of children is of great significance to protect brain tissues during traffic accidents. In this paper, the effects of skull stiffness on traumatic brain injury (TBI) are investigated by using a validated 6-year-old child head finite element (FE) model according to Chinese standard GB/T 24550-2009 Results showed that the HIC value, intracranial pressure, Von Mises stress and shear strain of brain tissue increased with the decrease of skull stiffness during the impact of FE model with engine hood. Therefore, the injury risk of the child head decreases with the increase of skull stiffness. And the skull with higher stiffness can provide a better protection for brain tissues during traffic accidents.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Shihai Cui
AU  - Yue Chen
AU  - Haiyan Li
AU  - Shijie Ruan
PY  - 2015/11
DA  - 2015/11
TI  - Effects of Skull Stiffness on Intracranial Responses of a Child Head
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 4th International Conference on Computer, Mechatronics, Control and Electronic Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 956
EP  - 959
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccmcee-15.2015.179
DO  - 10.2991/iccmcee-15.2015.179
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