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COST 327
Motorcycle Safety Helmets
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| Domain | Vehicle Technology: Passive Safety |
| Duration | from 06/1995 until 11/1999 |
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Head injuries cause some three-quarters of all fatalities to motorcyclists, while about one quarter of all injured riders suffer a head injury. COST 327 was formed to investigate in detail, motorcyclists' head and neck injuries.
The COST 327 action was established with seven research topics, with a timetable and four main onjectives, all to be achived using a wide range of European experience to determine or modify national approaches.
Topics:
- Literature review
- Accident data collection
- Headform assessment
- Reconstruction of helmet accident damage
- Mathematical model of the skull, brain, neck, and helmet
- Human tolerance to injury
- Development of test procedures
Objectives:
- The first was to establish the distribution and severity of injuries experienced by motorcyclists, concentrating on the head and neck.
- The second was to determine the most significant head and neck injury mechanisms.
- Thirdly, the tolerance of the human head, brain and neck to these injuries and injury mechanisms was to be established.
- The overall findings were to be used to propose a specification for future testing of motorcycle helmets in Europe.
