Explaining and predicting the increased thorax injury in aged females: age and subject-specific thorax geometry coupled with improved bone constitutive models and age-specific material properties evaluated in side impact conditions

• Published in: Frontiers in public health Vol. 12; p. 1336518
• Main Authors: Corrales, Miguel A., Bolte, John Henry, Pipkorn, Bengt, Markusic, Craig, Cronin, Duane S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 2024
• Subjects: Accidents, Traffic; Age Factors; Aged; aged population; Biomechanical Phenomena; bone constitutive modeling; Female; human body model (HBM); Humans; Public Health; rib fracture; Rib Fractures - etiology; side impact; Thorax; thorax injury; side impact; bone constitutive modeling; human body model (HBM); rib fracture; aged population; thorax injury

Predicting and understanding thorax injury is fundamental for the assessment and development of safety systems to mitigate injury risk to the increasing and vulnerable aged population. While computational human models have contributed to the understanding of injury biomechanics, contemporary human b...