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Barry S. Myers

Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Box 90083, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90281, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Conferences


Adult head and neck dynamics: A sensitivity analysis study during frontal impact

Conference Conference Proceedings International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Injury Ircobi · January 1, 2016 Cite

The influence of muscle modeling methods and paths on head and neck response

Conference 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics Wccm 2014 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics Eccm 2014 and 6th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics Ecfd 2014 · July 1, 2014 For inertial loading in frontal impacts, the effects of the neck muscles are profound, and impact the accuracy of computational and physical surrogates. Previous studies have shown two important aspects of muscle modeling in adult computational models are ... Cite

Impact properties of adult and ATD heads

Conference 2012 Ircobi Conference Proceedings International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Injury · October 29, 2012 Traumatic brain injury (TBI) causes 1.1 million trips to the hospital each year in the US, with 235,000 of these injuries requiring admissions. Given the importance of TBI, head injury has been studied extensively using both cadavers and anthropomorphic te ... Cite

Pediatric Head Contours and Inertial Properties for ATD Design

Conference SAE Technical Papers · November 3, 2010 Child head trauma in the United States is responsible for 30% of all childhood injury deaths with costs estimated at $10 billion per year. The common tools for studying this problem are the child anthropomorphic test devices (ATDs). The headform sizes and ... Full text Cite

Tensile Mechanical Properties of the Perinatal and Pediatric PMHS Osteoligamentous Cervical Spine

Conference SAE Technical Papers · November 3, 2008 Pediatric cervical spine biomechanics have been under-researched due to the limited availability of pediatric post-mortem human subjects (PMHS). Scaled data based on human adult and juvenile animal studies have been utilized to augment the limited pediatri ... Full text Cite

Comparative Structural Neck Responses of the THOR-NT, Hybrid III, and Human in Combined Tension-Bending and Pure Bending

Conference SAE Technical Papers · November 6, 2006 This study evaluated the biofidelity of both the Hybrid III and the THOR-NT anthropomorphic test device (ATD) necks in quasistatic tension-bending and pure-bending by comparing the responses of both the ATDs with results from validated computational models ... Full text Cite

Variation of Neck Muscle Strength Along the Human Cervical Spine

Conference SAE Technical Papers · November 1, 2004 The aim of this study was to describe and explain the variation of neck muscle strength along the cervical spine. A three-dimensional model of the head-neck complex was developed to test the hypothesis that the moment-generating capacity of the neck muscul ... Full text Cite

Human Cervical Motion Segment Flexibility and Facet Capsular Ligament Strain under Combined Posterior Shear, Extension and Axial Compression

Conference SAE Technical Papers · November 1, 2000 The cervical facet capsular ligaments are thought to be an important anatomical site of whiplash injury, although the mechanism by which these structures may be injured during whiplash remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to quantify the interver ... Full text Cite

CERVICAL SPINE BUCKLING: THE EFFECTS OF VERTEBRAL MASS AND LOADING RATE

Conference ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition Proceedings Imece · January 1, 1997 The importance of buckling during compressive loading of the cervical spine was suggested by Torg (1985) and has been subsequently demonstrated both quasi-statically2 and dynamically3. The complex deformations resulting from first and second order cervical ... Full text Cite

COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF AXIAL NECK IMPACT: INFLUENCE OF HEAD MOTION AND CERVICAL SPINE BUCKLING ON DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR

Conference ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition Proceedings Imece · January 1, 1997 A computational head-neck model was developed to better understand the influence of head motion and cervical spine buckling on dynamic responses to near-vertex head impact. The model consisted of rigid vertebrae interconnected by assemblies of nonlinear sp ... Full text Cite

AN OPTICAL SYSTEM TO DETERMINE AXIAL SURFACE STRAINS IN SKELETAL MUSCLE

Conference ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition Proceedings Imece · January 1, 1996 Full text Cite