What is it about?
Headforms are used as a surrogate for human subjects in the impact testing of ice hockey helmets. However, head shapes can vary tremendously between individuals, and the interface between the interior of a helmet and the head may affect the impact attenuation properties of a helmet. This paper uses 3D modeling to compare the head shapes of three headforms to a sample of adult males to determine whether headforms are valid representatives of human head shape.
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Why is it important?
Our findings show that 50th percentile headforms are do not represent the head shape of a median human subject. Thus, current headforms may not be a suitable analogue for human head shapes in certification standards using headform-mounted helmet impacts.
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This page is a summary of: Comparison of surrogate 50th percentile human headforms to an adult male sample using three-dimensional modeling and principal component analysis, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part P Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology, April 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1754337119840848.
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