Development of a Finite Element Based Injury Metric for Pulmonary Contusion
Motor vehicle crash (MVC) and its associated injuries remain a major public health problem world wide. In 2005 alone there were 6 million police-reported crashes in the United States resulting in 2.5 million injuries and 46,000 fatalities. The thorax is second only to the head in terms of frequenc...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28532 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08052008-154601/ |