Center for Injury Biomechanic
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What We Do
The Center for Injury Biomechanics performs research investigating human tolerance to impact loading. The application of this research includes automobile safety, military restraints, and sports biomechanics. The Center combines experimental testing with automobile test dummies and computational modeling in order to develop human impact injury criteria. As a member of the Center for Biomedical Engineering at Virginia Tech, the laboratory offers an excellent opportunity for undergraduate and graduate student education through a wide variety of biomechanics courses and research experience.
Research
A primary focus is the Eye Injury Research Program that examines the following eye trauma projects:
- Airbag Induced Eye Injuries
- Finite Element Model of the Human Eye
- Baseball Induced Eye Injuries
- Eye Injuries from Airbags with Seamless Module Covers
- Development of a Synthetic Eye
Other projects include:
- Child Dummy Neck Evaluation
- Airbag Induced Skin Burns and Abrasions
- Upper Extremity Fractures From Airbags
- Slip and Fall Lower Extremity Injuries
- Femur Injuries in Automobile Crashes
Facilities
- High speed digital color video: can film at up to 30,000 frames per second
- High speed data acquisition system: 64 channels, sampling rates of 10 kHz to 20 kHz
- High speed impactor: energy source for impact tests
- Injury diagnostic techniques: ophthalmic ultrasound, X-ray, CT, and MRI