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These papers present the prevelance and consequence of lower extremity injuries in frontal crashes in the United States. Injury criteria, risk curves and recommended injury assessment reference values for below knee injuries are also provided for use with the Thor-Lx/HIIIr and Thor-FLx/HIIIr.

Response Corridors for the Human Surrogates in Lateral Impacts

Final Rule Nij (Version 10) Reference Implementation (Zipped EXE file)

    *Self-extracting ZIP file: This code is a reference implementation of the Final Rule Nij (Version 10) injury criteria that was written for purposes of clarity and no consideration has been made for speed. style, or efficiency. The Standard C++ library was used to avoid any confusion due to c-style memory allocation.

    Program Input: Three ascii x-y files, where each line of the input file contains two floating point values, one for the time and one for the y value

    *** All three files must have the same number of points and the same time data ***
    *** All input data must be unfiltered and will be filtered within this program ***

    Program Output: The Nij injury criteria, the time of Peak injury.

Effects of Head Restraint Position on Neck Injury In Rear Impact

    This paper was presented at the Traffic Safety and Auto Engineering Section of the Whiplash- Associated Disorders World Congress 7-11 February 1999, Vancouver, Canada

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