Injury biomechanics and control: optimal protection from impact

The book covers the optimal protection from impact and shock, and in particular, the prevention of injuries. Injury control, a new branch of engineering science, is developing rapidly, incorporating the fundamentals of biomechanics, engineering mechanics, and control design. Treating the human body as a multi-faceted engineering system, the goal is to predict and ultimately design systems to prevent injury to a human being under specific environmental conditions whether in an automobile, aircraft, or military situation. The material in this book is divided into two parts. The first part (Chapters 1-6) presents the fundamentals of optimum protection from impact, without a specific reference toinjury control. The second part deals with the control of particular injuriescaused by impact loading, and is based on the material in the first part of the book.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-10015-8
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 27/11/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés