Buhrman J R, Knox F S
Armstrong Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433, USA.
Biomed Sci Instrum. 1997;33:316-20.
For more than thirty years the Armstrong Laboratory (AL) has studied the response of human volunteers and human surrogates to impact accelerations. Data from these studies form a national resource which should be made available to biodynamics model builders and safety researchers everywhere. Recently AL joined with the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) to develop a multi-media Biodynamics Work Environment (BWE) which will facilitate access to both their respective data bases and provide a means for sharing that access within the scientific community. The BWE concept is sufficiently flexible to allow integration of other databases as well as biodynamics models and tools. The AL data, for example, consists of over 10,000 impact tests which are currently archived on optical media. Each test includes acceleration and motion time histories, subject anthropometry, documentation photos, and high speed video. Among the models to be included are the Articulated Total Body, Head Spine, Dynamic Response Index, Multi-axis Dynamic Response Criteria, and BURNSIM. Complementary analytical tools would involve the use of spreadsheets, statistics, modeling, data analysis, and math packages. This paper will discuss the development, current status, and future plans of the BWE.
三十多年来，阿姆斯特朗实验室（AL）一直在研究人类志愿者和人体模型对冲击加速度的反应。这些研究数据形成了一种国家资源，应提供给各地的生物动力学模型构建者和安全研究人员。最近，AL与国家公路交通安全管理局（NHTSA）合作开发了一个多媒体生物动力学工作环境（BWE），这将便于访问它们各自的数据库，并提供一种在科学界内共享这种访问权限的方式。BWE概念具有足够的灵活性，允许集成其他数据库以及生物动力学模型和工具。例如，AL的数据包括目前存储在光学介质上的10000多次冲击测试。每次测试都包括加速度和运动时间历程、受试者人体测量数据、记录照片和高速视频。计划纳入的模型包括铰接式全身模型、头部脊柱模型、动态响应指数、多轴动态响应标准和BURNSIM。辅助分析工具将包括使用电子表格、统计学、建模、数据分析和数学软件包。本文将讨论BWE的开发、现状和未来计划。
