Contents:

The State of the Art.- Trauma Evaluation Needs.- Comparison of Dynamic Response of Humans and Test Devices (Dummies).- The Repeatability of Dummy Performance.- Dummy Performance in Crash Simulations Environments.- Impact Response and Appraisal Criteria Head and Thorax I.- Biomechanical Aspects of Head Injury.- Head Model for Impact Tolerance.- A Basis for Crash Dummy Skull and Head Geometry.- An Anatomical Skull for Impact Testing.- Analysis of a Slanted-Rib Model of the Human Thorax.- Impact Response and Appraisal Criteria Thorax II and Neck.- Human Torso Response to Blunt Trauma.- Impact Response of the Human Thorax.- Evaluation of Dummy Neck Performance.- Performance Requirements and Characteristics of Mechanical Necks.- Progress in the Mechanical Simulation of Human Head-Neck Response.- Preliminary Discussion of an Approach to Modeling Living Human Head and Neck to ?Gx Impact Acceleration.- Mobility and Kinematics.- New Advances in Volitional Human Mobility Simulation.- Validation of a Three-Dimensional Mathematical Model of the Crash Victim.- Kinematic Analysis of Human Volunteer Tests.