Improved protection and performance through advanced helmet design

通过先进的头盔设计提高保护和性能

• 批准号: 507705-2016
• 负责人: Fischer, Steven
• 金额: $ 3.23万
• 依托单位: University of Waterloo
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Department of National Defence / NSERC Research Partnership
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=618226
• 关键词: Improved; protection; performance; through; advanced

The helmet is an essential piece of equipment to protect the head from impact. In a military context, impacts may include blast, ballistic, or blunt force to the head. Perhaps not surprisingly, helmet research and design has focused on continuously improving the impact protection of the helmet. Improvements in impact protection ensure that our military personnel can return home safely. However, recently the helmet has also become a useful platform for mounting communications and performance enhancement devices. At the same time, chronic neck pain has emerged as a significant problem for our military personnel, particularly helicopter aircrew, directly affecting their operational readiness and quality of life post-military duty. While no single cause is solely responsible, the increased use of the helmet as a mounting platform for other devices is a leading concern. The focus of this research is to learn more about how added mass on the head (i.e., the addition of communications devices, or night vision goggles to the helmet) influences head-neck function and tissue level exposures. We will apply these learnings, in concert with impact simulations, to re-think helmet design. Through this approach we will realize helmet design options that continue to provide essential impact protection to prevent acute impact related injuries, but that also considers the helmet's role as a mounting platform. Importantly, our new helmet design will also improve protection against long-term chronic neck pain, a growing problem that will continue to reduce the quality of life of our veterans if left un-checked.

头盔是保护头部免受冲击力的必不可少的设备。在军事背景下，影响可能包括爆炸，弹道或钝力。也许并不奇怪，头盔研究和设计集中在不断改善头盔的影响保护。影响保护的改善确保我们的军事人员可以安全返回家园。但是，最近，头盔也已成为安装通信和性能增强设备的有用平台。同时，对于我们的军事人员，尤其是直升机机组人员来说，慢性颈部疼痛已成为一个重大问题，直接影响了他们的运作准备和生活质量后军事职责。虽然没有单一的原因完全负责，但头盔作为其他设备的安装平台的使用是主要问题。这项研究的重点是更多地了解有关头部（即添加通信设备或头盔上的夜视护目镜）如何影响头颈功能和组织水平暴露的更多信息。我们将与Infeb模拟一起应用这些学习来重新思考头盔设计。通过这种方法，我们将实现头盔设计选项，继续提供基本的影响保护，以防止急性影响相关伤害，但这也考虑了头盔作为安装平台的作用。重要的是，我们的新头盔设计还将改善对长期慢性颈部疼痛的保护，这一日益增长的问题将继续降低退伍军人的生活质量，如果未经检查。