• Biomechanical response targets for physical and computational models of the pediatric trunk 

      Kent, Richard W.; López Valdés, Francisco José; Lamp, John; Lau, Sabrina; Parent, Daniel; Kerrigan, Jason; Lessley, David J.; Salzar, Robert; Sochor, Mark; et al., ? (01/09/2012)
      <p><strong>Objectives:</strong></p> This paper quantifies pediatric thoracoabdominal response to belt loading to guide the scaling of existing adult response data and to assess the validity of a juvenile porcine abdominal ...
    • Pressure waves in the aorta during isolated abdominal belt loading. The magnitude, phase and attenuation 

      Arregui-Dalmases, Carlos; Pozo de Dios, Eduardo del; Stacey, S.; Kindig, M.; Lessley, D.J.; López Valdés, Francisco José; Forman, Jason L.; Kent, Richard W. (01/07/2011)
      While rupture of the aorta is a leading cause of sudden death following motor vehicle crashes, the specific mechanism that causes this injury is not currently well understood. Aortic ruptures occurring in the field are ...
    • The six degrees of freedom motion of the human head, spine, and pelvis in a frontal impact 

      López Valdés, Francisco José; Riley, Patrick O.; Lessley, David J.; Arbogast, Kristy .B.; Seacrist, Thomas; Balasubramanian, Sriram; Maltese, Matthew R.; Kent, Richard W. (01/04/2014)
      Objective: The goal of this study is to characterize the in situ 6-degree-of-freedom kinematics of the head, 3 vertebrae (T1, T8, and L2), and the pelvis in a 40 km/h frontal impact. Methods: Three postmortem human ...