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News Release 15-142
Crash test simulations expose real risks
Using Blacklight supercomputer, researchers gain new insights into crash injuries and ways to mitigate them
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Among other findings, the Blacklight simulations suggested that the lumbar spine would experience higher stress when a driver starts in a more reclined position.
Credit: Wake Forest University Center for Injury Biomechanics
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This simulated real-world crash uses a human-body model.
Credit: Wake Forest University Center for Injury Biomechanics
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Ashley A. Weaver, serves as assistant professor at Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University Center for Injury Biomechanics and a former National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow
Credit: Wake Forest University
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Joel Douglas Stitzel Jr. serves as chairman of biomedical engineering at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
Credit: Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
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