Characteristics of human body dynamic responses to landing impact in supine position.
OBJECTIVE
To study the characteristics of human body dynamic responses to landing impact.


METHODS
Five healthy young men were exposed to 4-10 G for 50-80 ms half-sine acceleration pulse at 20 degrees supine angle and 10 G for 50 ms impact at 30 degrees to 60 degrees supine angles. The acceleration curves on the dropping platform of the impact tower, the seat, the human head, shoulder, chest and ilium, as well as ECG of the subjects were recorded.


RESULTS
The peaks of acceleration at the subject head, shoulder, chest, and ilium along chest-back direction rose with the increase of the impact level. The overshoots of acceleration at the subject head along head-ilium direction and chest-back direction were 93% and 102% respectively for 10 G at 20 degrees supine angle. With increase of supine angle, acceleration response at the subject along chest-back direction decreased. Acceleration response at the subject head along head-ilium direction was minimum at 40 degrees supine angle.


CONCLUSIONS
Transfer function of the human body to landing impact demonstrated that human body had a series of resonance frequencies which were 25 Hz, 34 Hz, 39 Hz, 43 Hz, 50 Hz, 64 Hz, and 70 Hz respectively.
Liu
Bing-Kun
BK
Institute of Space Medico-Engineering, Beijing.
Wang
Xian-min
XM
Wang
Yu-lan
YL
D000054:Acceleration; D000328:Adult; D000337:Aerospace Medicine; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D001794:Blood Pressure; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D018471:Hypergravity; D008297:Male; D011187:Posture / Q000502:physiology; D012449:Safety; D013026:Space Flight; D018531:Spacecraft / Q000295:instrumentation; D016683:Supine Position / Q000502:physiology*