ReviewFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2021
An Overview of the Effectiveness of Bicycle Helmet Designs in Impact Testing.
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- Multi-Objective Optimization Design and Impact Protection Efficacy of Locally Reinforced P-TPMS Forehead Helmet Liner.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Helmet material design for mitigating traumatic axonal injuries through AI-driven constitutive law enhancement.Communications engineering · 2025Article
- A cellulosic fibre foam as a bicycle helmet impact liner for brain injury mitigation in oblique impacts.Heliyon · 2025Article
- Smart technologies and the future of concussion prevention in ice hockey.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- How Well Do Popular Bicycle Helmets Protect from Different Types of Head Injury?Annals of biomedical engineering · 2024Article
- Bicycle helmets are associated with fewer and less severe head injuries and fewer neurosurgical procedures.Acta neurochirurgica · 2024Article
- An Air-Filled Bicycle Helmet for Mitigating Traumatic Brain Injury.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Numerical investigation of the rider's head injury in typical single-electric self-balancing scooter accident scenarios.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2022Article
- Evaluation of two rotational helmet technologies to decrease peak rotational acceleration in cycling helmets.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Cycling accidents are the leading cause of sports-related head injuries in the US. Conventional bicycle helmets typically consist of polycarbonate shell over Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) foam and are tested with drop tests to evaluate a helmet's ability to reduce head kinematics. Within the last decade, novel helmet technologies have been proposed to mitigate brain injuries during bicycle accidents, which necessitates the evaluation of their effectiveness in impact testing as compared to conventional helmets. In this paper, we reviewed the literature to collect and analyze the kinematic data of drop test experiments carried out on helmets with different technologies. In order to provide a fair comparison across different types of tests, we clustered the datasets with respect to their normal impact velocities, impact angular momentum, and the type of neck apparatus. When we analyzed the data based on impact velocity and angular momentum clusters, we found that the bicycle helmets that used rotation damping based technology, namely MIPS, had significantly lower peak rotational acceleration (PRA) and Generalized Acceleration Model for Brain Injury Threshold (GAMBIT) as compared to the conventional EPS liner helmets (
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