Conference proceeding
On Optimum Racing Helmets
SAE Technical Paper Series
Motorsports Engineering Conference & Expostion
12/01/1994
DOI: 10.4271/942467
Abstract
The design of a racing helmet is examined. The fundamentals behind the technology are shown to be rooted in cavitation and fluid pumping of the cerebral spinal fluid and angular acceleration of the brain tissue due to a rapid momentum exchange between the body and the head. Following discussion of the fundamental equations, the paper turns to the function of the helmet in providing a ramp for the acceleration pulse. The design of a helmet is addressed from the standpoint of analysis.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- On Optimum Racing Helmets
- Creators
- R. W McLayJ. B McQuillenD. G WilderM. K Molloy
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Conference
- Motorsports Engineering Conference & Expostion
- Series
- SAE Technical Paper Series
- DOI
- 10.4271/942467
- ISSN
- 0148-7191
- eISSN
- 2688-3627
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/01/1994
- Academic Unit
- Occupational and Environmental Health; Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9984197124002771
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