Effects of Skull Stiffness on Intracranial Responses of a Child Head
Authors
Shihai Cui, Yue Chen, Haiyan Li, Shijie Ruan
Corresponding Author
Shihai Cui
Available Online November 2015.
- DOI
- 10.2991/iccmcee-15.2015.179How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- child head; finite element (FE) model; skull stiffness; intracranial response; HIC
- Abstract
Skull stiffness of children is of great significance to protect brain tissues during traffic accidents. In this paper, the effects of skull stiffness on traumatic brain injury (TBI) are investigated by using a validated 6-year-old child head finite element (FE) model according to Chinese standard GB/T 24550-2009 Results showed that the HIC value, intracranial pressure, Von Mises stress and shear strain of brain tissue increased with the decrease of skull stiffness during the impact of FE model with engine hood. Therefore, the injury risk of the child head decreases with the increase of skull stiffness. And the skull with higher stiffness can provide a better protection for brain tissues during traffic accidents.
- Copyright
- © 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Shihai Cui AU - Yue Chen AU - Haiyan Li AU - Shijie Ruan PY - 2015/11 DA - 2015/11 TI - Effects of Skull Stiffness on Intracranial Responses of a Child Head BT - Proceedings of the 2015 4th International Conference on Computer, Mechatronics, Control and Electronic Engineering PB - Atlantis Press SP - 956 EP - 959 SN - 2352-5401 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccmcee-15.2015.179 DO - 10.2991/iccmcee-15.2015.179 ID - Cui2015/11 ER -