Title :
Head Injury Theory and Water Rescue Helmet Design
Author_Institution :
Shanghai Fire Res. Inst. of MPS, Shanghai, China
Abstract :
This paper is devoted to explain certain important aspects of a water rescue helmet. The paper has the following content: Firstly, the head injury theory is explained and the related design criteria are identified. Then the Foam layer design and material selection are conducted. In addition, the helmet sample is evaluated by experiment under safety standard EN1385, results are presented.
Keywords :
design engineering; injuries; road safety; EN1385 safety standard; foam layer design criteria; head injury theory; material selection; water rescue helmet design; Acceleration; Biomechanics; Face; Injuries; Materials; Standards; Foam; Head injury; Helmet design; Water rescue helmet;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Computation Technology and Automation (ICICTA), 2014 7th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Changsha
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-6635-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICICTA.2014.78
