HELMET TESTING

HELMET & BIOMECHANICS TESTING

EMBEDDED DAS & SENSORS ADVANCE INJURY ANALYSIS

The Challenge:

• Analyzing blunt and penetrating trauma injuries at the Biomechanics Injury Research (BIR) Laboratory at USC
• Collecting high-speed impact and rotational measurements for injury assessment
• Support a variety of applications: linear impactor, drop tower, ballistics & munitions testing
• Managing trailing cables that can get tangled, damaged and cause issues with noise or data loss
• Synchronizing high-speed cameras, trigger, power and communication
• Test set-up requirements and test repeatability

The Solution:

• DTS ultra-small, embedded data acquisition systems and sensors
• Positioning the DAS near the point of interest eliminates cables and improves data quality
• BIR Lab custom integrated DTS DAS and sensors in a Side Impact Dummy (Mil-SID), NOCSAE headforms, Hybrid III headforms and Sport Thoracic Chest Surrogate (STCS)
• Modular systems, user-configure for channel count and features
• Extensive sensor support: accelerometers, angular rate sensors, pressure sensors and strain gages
• Store in place reliability, data writes directly to non-volatile flash memory
• Experts in injury biomechanics and in-dummy solutions