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title

The Application of a Radial Basis Function Morphing Technique to a Validated Full Human Body Finite Element Model

author

Vavalle, Nicholas Aaron

abstract

Motor vehicle crashes kill over 1 million people worldwide each year making them one of the most common causes of death. With finite element models being used as tools to study blunt injuries, it is critical to validate them in a range of loading scenarios to ensure accurate model outputs. While human body models have typically been validated qualitatively, quantitative methods available to researchers can provide objective comparisons to the experimental data or between models. Validated human body models can help reveal the role that body habitus plays in injury outcomes for motor vehicle occupants. The objective of this dissertation was to validate a mid-sized male full human body finite element model and use that model as a basis for the development of a large male model.

contributor

Gayzik, F. Scott (committee chair)

Danelson, Kerry A (committee member)

Kemper, Andrew R (committee member)

Pajewski, Nicholas M (committee member)

Stitzel, Joel D (committee member)

date

2015-06-23T08:35:39Z (accessioned)

2015-12-22T09:30:10Z (available)

2015 (issued)

degree

Biomedical Engineering (discipline)

embargo

2015-12-22 (terms)

identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/57110 (uri)

language

en (iso)

publisher

Wake Forest University

type

Dissertation