CfIR Publications

Rollover Crashworthiness

Injury Mechanisms and Injury Tolerance

1. McElhaney JH, Roberts VL, Paver JG, Maxwell GM, “Chapter 2: Impact Injury of the Head and Spine,” The Etiology of Trauma to the Cervical Spine, Ewing CL, Thomas DJ, Sances A, Larson SJ, editors, Charles C Thomas Publishers, Springfield, Illinois, 1983.
2. McElhaney JH, Paver JG, McCrackin HJ, Maxwell GM, “Cervical Spine Compression Responses,” SAE Paper #831615, SAE Transactions 92; Proceedings of the 27th Stapp Car Crash Conference, October 1983.
3. Paver JG, McElhaney JH, “Selected Bibliography on Head and Neck Injury and Protection,” Neuroelectric News 10(4)-11(1-3) July 1982-July 1983.
4. Kliewer MA, Gray L, Paver JG, Richardson WD, Vogler JB, McElhaney JH, Myers, BS, “Acute Spinal Ligament Disruption: MR Imaging with Anatomic Correlation,” Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 3(6):855-861, 1993.
5. Myers BS, McElhaney JH, Doherty BJ, Paver JG, Gray L, “The Role of Torsion in Cervical Spine Trauma,” Spine 16(8):870-874, August 1991.
6. Myers BS, McElhaney JH, Doherty BJ, Paver JG, Nightingale RW, Ladd TP, Gray L, “Responses of the Human Cervical Spine to Torsion,” SAE Paper #892437, SAE Transactions 98; Proceedings of the 33rd Stapp Car Crash Conference, October 1989.
7. McElhaney JH, Doherty BJ, Paver JG, Myers BS, Gray L, “Flexion, Extension, and Lateral Bending Responses of the Cervical Spine,”Proceedings of the Conference on Neck injury in Advanced Military Aircraft Environments, AGARD, April 1989.
8. Gray L, Kliewer MA, Paver JG, McElhaney JH, “MRI of Experimentally Induced Spinal Injury,” 74th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiology Society of North America, 1988.
9. McElhaney JH, Doherty BJ, Paver JG, Myers, BS, “Combined Bending and Axial Loading Responses of the Cervical Spine,” SAE Paper #881709, SAE Transactions 97; Proceedings of the 32nd Stapp Car Crash Conference, October 1988.

Head Injury and Protection

1. Paver JG, McElhaney JH, “Research in Head Protection in the Industrial Environment,” Final Report, Industrial Safety Equipment Association, October 1987.
2. McElhaney JH, Paver JG, “Industrial Helmet Design and Testing in the United States,” Proceedings of the Conference on Protective Equipment, Construction Safety Association of Ontario, Canada, October-November 1988.
3. Paver JG, McElhaney JH, “Research in Head Protection,” Final Report, Industrial Safety Equipment Association, 1986.
4. McElhaney JH, Roberts VL, Paver JG, Maxwell GM, “Chapter 2: Impact Injury of the Head and Spine,” The Etiology of Trauma to the Cervical Spine, Ewing CL, Thomas DJ, Sances A, Larson SJ, editors, Charles C Thomas Publishers, Springfield, Illinois, 1983.
5. Paver JG, McElhaney JH, “Selected Bibliography on Head and Neck Injury and Protection,” Neuroelectric News 10(4)-11(1-3) July 1982-July 1983.

Occupant Protection

1. Weiss K, Paver J, “Forensic Examination of an Unwanted Seat Belt Release in a Rollover Collision with Occupant Ejection,” American Association of Forensic Scientists, 2010.
2. Paver JG, “Identification of Airbag Design Features that Adversely Affect Injury Potential,” AAFS, Seattle, WA, 2008.
3. Khadilkar AV, Der Avanessian H, Ward P, Laviano CW, Paver JG, Ward CC, “Safety Performance Evaluation of Selected Child Safety Seats Under Angled Impacts in Car-To-Car Crash Tests,” BED-Volume 50, Bioengineering Conference of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2001.
4. Ward CC, Der Avanessian H, Ward P, Paver JG, “Investigation of Restraint Function on Male and Female Occupants in Rollover Events,” SAE Paper #01B-109, International Congress and Exposition, March 2001.
5. Paver JG, Khadilkar AV, and Ward CC, “Use of Daily Activity Data to Assess Injury Potential in Low-Speed Motor Vehicle Crashes,” Advances in Bioengineering, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Anaheim, CA, November 1998.
6. Piziali RL, Ayres TJ, Paver JG, Fowler G, McCarthy RL, “Investigation of the Net Safety Impact of an Occupant Protection System from All-Terrain Vehicles,” SAE Paper #930208, International Congress and Exposition, March 1993.
7. Piziali RL, Paver JG, Merala R, Fries R, Ayers TJ, Fowler G, McCarthy RL, “Evaluation of an Occupant Protection System for All-Terrain Vehicles,” ASME #92-WA/SAF-9, Winter Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, November 1992.
8. Paver JG, McElhaney JH, “The Deployable Crash Pad,” Final Report, General Motors/American Society of Engineering Education University Design Competition on Passive Restraints in Automobiles, April 1987.

HALO

1. An Analytic and Experimental Evaluation of the HALO Rollover Damage Minimization Device

2. Commercial, Police, and Military Vehicle Rollover Protection and Evaluating the Effectiveness of Geometry and Retrofit Rollover Testing

3. Improving Rollover Crashworthiness of Heavy Trucks Equipped with Towers and Booms Overhanging the Cab

4. Comparing Vehicle Rollover Crash Test Rigs: JRS vs. DRoTS

5. Retrofitting for Rollover Crashworthiness Occupant Protection

6. A Study of Rollover Occupant Injury Mitigation Using Dynamic Testing to Evaluate Alternative Protection Systems

7. Rollover Protection - A Meaningful & Effective Solution

8. Vehicle Roof Geometry and its Effects on Rollover Roof Performance

Dummy Development

1. “Correlating Human and Flexible Dummy Head-Neck Injury Performance”, ESV Conference, Seoul, S. Korea, May 27-30, 2013.
2. “Is BFD a Hyperflexion Injury or Compression with Localized Bending Injury or Both?”, ICRASH International Crashworthiness Conference, Milan, Italy, July 18-20, 2012.
3. “The Development of IARV’s for the Hybrid III Neck Modified for Dynamic Rollover Crash Testing”, ICRASH International Crashworthiness Conference, Washington, DC, September 22-24, 2010.
4. “Testing of the Prototype Low-Durometer Hybrid III Neck for Improved Biofidelity", ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference, Naples, FL, June 15-19, 2010.
5. “An Improved Dummy Neck Assembly for Dynamic Rollover Testing ”, ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference, Naples, FL, June 15-19, 2010.
6. “Hybrid III Correlation with Human Injury Potential in Rollovers”, ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference, Lake Tahoe, California, June 17-21, 2009.

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