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Area of Science:

  • Injury Biomechanics
  • Biofidelity Response Corridors (BRCs)
  • Biological Tissue Testing

Background:

  • Biological tissue testing exhibits significant specimen-to-specimen variability.
  • Biofidelity Response Corridors (BRCs) are crucial for encapsulating this variability.
  • BRCs are essential for developing and validating physical and computational injury biomechanics models.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To generate biofidelity response corridors (BRCs) for post-mortem human surrogates under under-body blast loading conditions.
  • To develop a statistically sound and objective method for assessing response similitude across different test devices.
  • To ensure BRCs primarily reflect biological variability, not test device artifacts.

Main Methods:

  • Post-mortem human surrogates were tested under various under-body blast loading conditions.
  • Testing was conducted across multiple impact test facilities with slight variations in test devices.
  • A novel method was developed to assess the similitude of responses between different test devices for BRC inclusion.

Main Results:

  • A method for assessing response similitude between test devices was successfully created.
  • This metric allows for the objective inclusion of responses into BRCs.
  • The method helps differentiate biological variability from test device-induced anomalies.

Conclusions:

  • The developed method provides a statistically sound approach to ensure BRCs represent true biological variability.
  • This enhances the reliability of BRCs used in injury biomechanics research and model validation.
  • Objective assessment of response similitude is key to creating robust biofidelity response corridors.