The pelvic construct is an important part of the body as it facilitates the transfer of upper body
weight to the lower limbs and protects a number of organs and vessels in the lower …

The increased incidence of injury demonstrated in epidemiological data for the elderly
population, and females compared to males, has not been fully understood in the context of …

Knowledge of the muscle, ligament, and joint forces is important when planning orthopedic
surgeries. Since these quantities cannot be measured in vivo under normal circumstances …

Computational models that predict in vivo joint loading and muscle forces can potentially
enhance and augment our knowledge of both typical and pathological gaits. To adopt such …

A finite element model was used to compare the biomechanical properties of a novel
anterior transpedicular screw artificial vertebral body system (AVBS) with a conventional …

Study Design. A finite element (FE) model of the human neck with incorporated continuum or
discrete muscles was used to simulate experimental impacts in rear, frontal, and lateral …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) contributes to a significant portion of the injuries resulting from
motor vehicle crashes, falls, and sports collisions. The development of advanced …

Abstract Objective: ViVA OpenHBM is the first open source Human Body Model (HBM) for
crash safety assessment. It represents an average size (50th percentile) female and was …

Measurements of brain deformations under injurious loading scenarios are actively sought.
In this work, we report experimentally measured head kinematics and corresponding …

This study proposes a detailed FEM of a human volunteer's neck and proceeds to an
original model validation against experimental data recorded with this human volunteer. In …