Date of Award
2017
Document Type
Open Access Master's Report
Degree Name
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (MS)
Administrative Home Department
Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
Advisor 1
Gopal Jayaraman
Committee Member 1
K V C Rao
Committee Member 2
Gregory Odegard
Abstract
Abstract
Brain is vulnerable to injuries even from low heights of fall. There are many infant casualties who get severe brain injury each year. This research is a simulated study of the stress patterns and values when human infant skull is subjected to free fall. The input velocity was calculated using simple free fall velocity formulas and was fed into the simulation. Model was meshed and refined using Hypermesh software. RADIOSS solver of the Hyperworks package was used to analyze and draw results for the simulation process. Various types of stresses and strains were extracted and plotted against respective drop heights.
Recommended Citation
Walvekar, Suryanshu, "A 3 D- FEM Study on the Stress Distributions in Pediatric Skull due to Impact from Free Fall", Open Access Master's Report, Michigan Technological University, 2017.
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