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title

Development and Utilization of a Semi-Automated Finite Element Approach to Real World Motor Vehicle Crash Reconstruction to Investigate Lumbar Spine Injury

author

Jones, Derek Alexander

abstract

Motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) are the eighth leading cause of death globally, accounting for over 1.2 million deaths annually. In the United States alone, 30,000 deaths and 3.9 million injuries can be attributed to MVCs every year. To study real world injury incidence and causation, multiple databases are continually updated by trained crash investigators. Recent analyses have shown that despite increasing crashworthiness of vehicles, the rate of lumbar spine injuries has increased over the course of multiple decades. Finite element analysis is a valuable tool that has been underutilized in the analysis of real world MVC reconstruction and possesses the potential to shed light on real world injury mechanism.

subject

finite element

injury

lumbar

THUMS

vertebra

contributor

Stitzel, Joel D (committee chair)

Gayzik, F. Scott (committee member)

Miller, Anna N (committee member)

Weaver, Ashley A (committee member)

date

2016-08-25T08:35:27Z (accessioned)

2018-08-19T08:30:09Z (available)

2016 (issued)

degree

Biomedical Engineering (discipline)

embargo

2018-08-19 (terms)

identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/62652 (uri)

language

en (iso)

publisher

Wake Forest University

type

Thesis