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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Human Body Model"”.
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Injury Metrics, Real World Crash Reconstruction, and Robust Injury Prediction for a Human Body Model in Side Impact
… world crash reconstructions using vehicle and human body finite element models (HBM) have the potential to elucidate injury mechanism, predict injury risk, and evaluate injury mitigation system effectiveness. The purpose of the work presented herein was to create a novel paradigm in finite …
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Design and ESD Protection of Wideband, Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits in CMOS Technologies
… is fully ESD-protected with an expected 2-kV human body model failure threshold.
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Design Automation for Reliable CMOS Chip Input/output Circuits
… the most prevalent failure mechanism during the Human Body Model (HBM) ESD stress. Previous circuit thermal model (integrator circuit) in iETSIM only applies for constant current stress. A general thermal model using convolution is developed. New techniques are proposed to implement a thermal …
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Advanced tuning of a trans-tibial prosthesis using motion capture and visualisation
… gait analysis protocols: Strathclyde Cluster Model (SCM), Human Body Model (HBM), Human Body Model 2 (HBM2) and Plug-in Gait (PiG) were investigated, and their reliability were explored in able-bodied and trans-tibial amputee (TTA) subjects. The SCM demonstrated good correlation, good …
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Simulated Automobile and Rotary-Wing Aircraft Impacts: Dynamic Neck Response after Surgical Treatment for Cervical Spondylosis
… research used a state-of-the-art, full body human finite element (FE) model to investigate the effects of these surgical procedures on neck response during simulated dynamic impacts. A method was developed to measure cross-sectional forces and moments at each level of the neck in the FE …
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Objective assessment of static and dynamic seats under vehicular vibrations
… The experimental results are used to identify a Human Response Function to characterize the contributions of the human body. This function is further utilized to estimate the seat-human system performance from measured seat-passive load performance characteristics. A parametric sensitivity …
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Numerical and Experimental Study of Pacemaker Safety under MRI
… with MRI RF (radio frequency) coil and human body model, novel techniques for the evaluation of MRI-induced heating or induced voltage in the vicinity of implanted metallic lead have been developed based on the reciprocity theorem. The measurement configurations have been described in …
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Pedestrian Head Protection During Car To Pedestrian Accidents: In The Event Of Primary Impact With Vehicle And Secondary Impact With Ground
… be the use of a full scale pedestrian dummy or human body model rather than a free motion headform. A second finding is that severity of head injury is much greater in a secondary head impact with ground than in the primary impact with the hood. Moreover, it is possible to avoid the secondary …
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Design and analysis of miniaturized implantable and wearable microstrip antennas
… The antenna performance is tested inside the human body model. The design is later readjusted to get the desired resonant frequency to account for the losses in the body dielectric. The resonant frequency, bandwidth, gain, and radiation pattern of the proposed antenna are provided in this …
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Modeling the Sit-to-Stand Transition using Koopman Lifting Linearization and Human State Estimation
… thesis presents contributions to the dynamic modeling of STS and to human-robot collaboration for improving robotic assistance of STS. To coherently capture the multi-phase nature of STS, lifting linearization, a dynamic modeling methodology inspired by Koopman operator theory, to subsume …
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Distributed electrostatic discharge protection for high-speed wireline receivers
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Implanted Antennas and Intra-Body Propagation Channel for Wireless Body Area Network
… Devices are important components of the Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) as a promising technology in biotelemetry, e-health care and hyperthermia applications. The design of WBAN faces many challenges, such as frequency band selection, channel modeling, antenna design, physical layer (PHY) …
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Occupant Responses of Relaxed and Braced 5th Percentile Female and 50th Percentile Male Volunteers during Low-Speed Frontal and Frontal-Oblique Sled Tests
… braking and low-severity crash events. Active human body models (HBMs) have emerged as valuable tools to evaluate occupant safety during these events, but must be validated with relevant volunteer data to accurately represent the responses of live occupants. The objective of this dissertation …
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ESD Protected SiGe HBT RFIC Power Amplifiers
… measured ESD protection rating of ± 1kV standard Human Body Model (HBM) ESD test. The simulated DECT PA demonstrated +1.5kV/-4kV HBM performance.
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Investigation of W-Beam Energy-Absorbing Guardrail End Terminal Safety Performance Using Finite Element Modeling
… 1) to develop and validate a Finite Element (FE) model of the ET-Plus, a commonly used energy-absorbing guardrail end terminal; 2) to examine the conditions of in-service end terminals, and to evaluate the performance of the damaged relative to undamaged end terminals in simulated impacts; 3) to …
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Study of Occupant Model Capability to Quantify Injury Risk for eVTOL Vehicles
… investigate the injury predictions of the Global Human Body Models Consortium (GHBMC) and Total Human Model for Safety (THUMS) occupant models in the tested aircraft crash condition and explore possible utilization of both human body models (HBMs) in this context. Eight crash conditions were …
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Design, Characterization and Analysis of Component Level Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Protection Solutions
… real word stress condition, several ESD stress models and test methods have been developed. The basic ESD models are Human Body model (HBM), Machine Mode (MM), and Charge Device Model (CDM). For the system-level ESD robustness, it is defined by different standards and specifications than …