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Jones, Derek Alexander 2016-08-25T08:35:27Z 2018-08-19T08:30:09Z 2016 https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/62652 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. en Wake Forest University finite element injury lumbar THUMS vertebra Development and Utilization of a Semi-Automated Finite Element Approach to Real World Motor Vehicle Crash Reconstruction to Investigate Lumbar Spine Injury Thesis Stitzel, Joel D Gayzik, F. Scott Miller, Anna N Weaver, Ashley A Biomedical Engineering 2018-08-19 open.access