TY - GEN
T1 - Simulation-based study of impact energy absorption in American football helmet
AU - Ahmadisoleymani, Seyed Saeed
AU - Yang, James
AU - Schmit, Andrew
AU - Rasty, Jahan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2016 by ASME.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Concussion injury limits the American football player's career life and causes several long term problems In order to limit its severity and frequency, various helmets have been designed to protect player's head This absorbency is mainly achieved by the padding system inside the helmet which includes energy absorbing and comfort foams and inflatable air surrounding the foams In a recent study an experiment was performed on a Riddell Youth Revolution Speed helmet to analyze the effect of the head size on capability of the helmet in attenuating the impacts It was found that headform size would affect the helmet performance In the current study, a three dimensional finite element (FE) model has been developed based on the above mentioned experiment The purpose of this study is to develop and validate the FE model based on the experimental results, regarding the effect of headform size on performance of the helmet.
AB - Concussion injury limits the American football player's career life and causes several long term problems In order to limit its severity and frequency, various helmets have been designed to protect player's head This absorbency is mainly achieved by the padding system inside the helmet which includes energy absorbing and comfort foams and inflatable air surrounding the foams In a recent study an experiment was performed on a Riddell Youth Revolution Speed helmet to analyze the effect of the head size on capability of the helmet in attenuating the impacts It was found that headform size would affect the helmet performance In the current study, a three dimensional finite element (FE) model has been developed based on the above mentioned experiment The purpose of this study is to develop and validate the FE model based on the experimental results, regarding the effect of headform size on performance of the helmet.
KW - American football helmet
KW - Energy absorption
KW - Finite element analysis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85007371032&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1115/DETC201659296
DO - 10.1115/DETC201659296
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85007371032
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
BT - 12th International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Control
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME 2016 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE 2016
Y2 - 21 August 2016 through 24 August 2016
ER -