NDLI: Modeling and Optimization of Airbag Helmets for Preventing Head Injuries in Bicycling

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Author	Kurt, Mehmet Laksari, Kaveh Kuo, Calvin Grant, Gerald A. Camarillo, David B.
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	Bicycling is the leading cause of sports-related traumatic brain injury. Most of the current bike helmets are made of expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam and ultimately designed to prevent blunt trauma, e.g., skull fracture. However, these helmets have limited effectiveness in preventing brain injuries. With the availability of high-rate micro-electrical-mechanical systems sensors and high energy density batteries, a new class of helmets, i.e., expandable helmets, can sense an impending collision and expand to protect the head. By allowing softer liner medium and larger helmet sizes, this novel approach in helmet design provides the opportunity to achieve much lower acceleration levels during collision and may reduce the risk of brain injury. In this study, we first develop theoretical frameworks to investigate impact dynamics of current EPS helmets and airbag helmets—as a form of expandable helmet design. We compared our theoretical models with anthropomorphic test dummy drop test experiments. Peak accelerations obtained from these experiments with airbag helmets achieve up to an 8-fold reduction in the risk of concussion compared to standard EPS helmets. Furthermore, we construct an optimization framework for airbag helmets to minimize concussion and severe head injury risks at different impact velocities, while avoiding excessive deformation and bottoming-out. An optimized airbag helmet with 0.12 m thickness at 72 ± 8 kPa reduces the head injury criterion (HIC) value to 190 ± 25 at 6.2 m/s head impact velocity compared to a HIC of 1300 with a standard EPS helmet. Based on a correlation with previously reported HIC values in the literature, this airbag helmet design substantially reduces the risks of severe head injury up to 9 m/s.
Starting Page	1148
Ending Page	1160
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00906964
Journal	Annals of Biomedical Engineering
Volume Number	45
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15739686
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2016-09-27
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Traumatic brain injury Concussion Head trauma Bicycle helmets Airbag helmets Biomedicine Biomedical Engineering Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics Classical Mechanics Biochemistry
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Biomedical Engineering

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