Author(s): Naif K. Al- Shammari and Clive Neal-Sturgess
Article publication date: 2016-03-01
Vol. 34 No. 1/2 (yearly), pp. 43-56.
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Keywords
Neck, Spinal injury, Multi body simulations, Risk, Peak virtual power, Camel collision.
Abstract
The camel–vehicle collision (CVC) problem has been increasing in Saudi Arabia and countermeasures are urgently needed to alleviate the heavy losses from such accidents. Modeling of a typical CVC has been created in a sagittal, and frontal planes to identify the common mechanisms of spinal injury of driver. In this work, computer simulations have been performed using a Multibody dynamic model of the cervical and thoracic-lumbar spine, where rigid bodies are connected by articulated joints and spring-damper elements.
The internal neck forces Principle Virtual Power of Neck (PVPn) was applied at intervertebral
levels for various impact speeds. PVPn was then correlated with real world crash
data of neck injuries. It has been shown that PVPn at each intervertebral level correlates
well with the crash data and can be used as a predictor of neck injuries.