Injury Probability Curve Using Advanced Energetic Device (AENID)

The overall objective of the project was to develop biofidelic response corridors, human injury curves for post-mortem human specimens human cadavers and anthropometric test devices ATDs under field relevant under body blast UBB loading conditions. These conditions involve very high onset rates, accelerative and vertically oriented loadings quite different from automotive accident conditions. A new manikin called WIAMan War injury assessment manikin need to be built based on the test results of these projects. A novel test device, AENID, Advanced ENergetic Innovative Device based on validated shock tube technology was conceived, designed, fabricated and tested as a part of this project. AENID when tested with a fully instrumented Hybrid III dummy was able to be loaded with very high onset rate as specified by the army. A number of tests under varying input conditions were tested and the resulting onset rate demonstrated that the system is capable of achieving a range needed for the generation of response to specify WIAMan. In addition to demonstrating the capability of AENID, procedures and protocols to use full-body and body regions of PMHS were developed, discussed and were in the final stages of approval. When the PI left University of Nebraska to assume the position of the Director of Center for Injury Biomechanics at New Jersey Institute of Technology, the funding and the project were discontinued by the army.