TY - CHAP
T1 - Traumatic Brain Injury in the Military
T2 - Biomechanics and Finite Element Modelling
AU - Friedman, Rinat
AU - Epstein, Yoram
AU - Gefen, Amit
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Traumatic brain injury is relatively common in military and law enforcement activities, despite ongoing improvements in head protection gear and in medical aid procedures and evacuation equipment in battlefield and conflict scenarios. In this chapter, we provide the relevant anatomical and physiological background which is relevant for understanding the occurrence and consequences of a traumatic brain injury and its subcategories. Next, we review the biomechanics of traumatic brain injury, and describe biomechanical injury criteria and thresholds. Finally, we introduce the concepts of modelling brain injuries by means of finite element techniques which consider the biomechanical properties of the head and neck tissues. The possible applications of such computational modelling and simulations, particularly for developing and testing military head-protection equipment, are discussed as well.
AB - Traumatic brain injury is relatively common in military and law enforcement activities, despite ongoing improvements in head protection gear and in medical aid procedures and evacuation equipment in battlefield and conflict scenarios. In this chapter, we provide the relevant anatomical and physiological background which is relevant for understanding the occurrence and consequences of a traumatic brain injury and its subcategories. Next, we review the biomechanics of traumatic brain injury, and describe biomechanical injury criteria and thresholds. Finally, we introduce the concepts of modelling brain injuries by means of finite element techniques which consider the biomechanical properties of the head and neck tissues. The possible applications of such computational modelling and simulations, particularly for developing and testing military head-protection equipment, are discussed as well.
KW - Combat injuries
KW - Finite element modelling
KW - Head trauma
KW - Military ballistic helmet
KW - Traumatic brain injury
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85062896504&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/8415_2016_189
DO - 10.1007/8415_2016_189
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AN - SCOPUS:85062896504
T3 - Studies in Mechanobiology, Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials
SP - 209
EP - 233
BT - Studies in Mechanobiology, Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials
PB - Springer
ER -