Much of the research conducted in the IBRC is collaborative, combining the efforts of students, faculty and staff in the IBRL and SBRL, and our child injury prevention studies (CChIPS) researchers. Our work is best categorized into regions of the human body. Click on the regions below to learn more.
Head
Neck
Thorax
Abdomen
Lower Extremity
Upper Extremity
Whole Body
ATD Development
Child Passenger Safety
Pediatric Thorax
Pediatric Upper Extremity
Pediatric Spine
Pediatric Lower Extremity
Finite Element Modeling
Microstructure
Epidemiology
To begin all research projects, we must first identify a problem. This means scouring databases for particular case studies of interest or for all cases representing a particular crash scenario or portion of the population at risk for injury.
The National Automotive Sampling System (NASS) Crashworthiness Data System (CDS) contains field data from representative and random vehicle crashes across the US, and is useful for quantifying incidence and collecting basic data associated with certain crash scenarios of all severities.
The Crash Injury Research Engineering Network (CIREN) contains case studies of serious vehicle crashes conducted by multidisciplinary teams of engineers and medical professionals to tease out injury causation in particular crash scenarios.
