HIC Workshop Summary
The Workshop on Criteria for Head Injury and Helmet Standards was hosted by the Medical College of Wisconsin and sponsored by the Snell Memorial Foundation, Inc. on May 6, 2005. There was extensive discussion of the Head Injury Criterion (HIC) and its application to a wide variety of engineering test standards. It was generally agreed that HIC should not be used for crash helmet test standards for all the reasons discussed in the report.
A list of important issues for crash helmet standards was identified by the participants. The list is contained in the workshop report. As identified in the report further discussion and research are needed to resolve the differences of opinion on the issues. The list will be used as a guide for future workshops.
- Download full Report (pdf)
- Becker_Snell_Conf_M2000_vs_EC-BYG.pdf
- Conflicts_of_helmet_stds_AAAM_1992.pdf
- ECE22rv4e_helmet_standard.pdf
- Feasibility_Study_of_218.pdf
- Gadd_1966_Weighted-Impulse_Criterion_for_Estimating_Injury_H.pdf
- Gadd_1971_Tolerable_Severity_Index_in_Whole-Head_Nonmech_Im.pdf
- Gennarelli_Snell_HIC_0505_c.pdf
- Helmeted_MC_JTrauma.pdf
- helmets_and_HIC_IRCOBI_2003.pdf
- HIC_in_football_headgear.pdf
- hodgson_1990_skid_and_helmets.pdf
- hodgsson_1991_skid_and_helmets.pdf
- King_IRCOBI_2003.pdf
- Mellor_helmet_v1.pdf
- Mertz_1997_Injury_Risk_Curves_for_Children_Adults_in_Front.pdf
- Mertz_2002_Injury_Risk_Assessments_Based_on_Dummy_Responses.pdf
- Newman_2002_Biomechanics_of_Head_Trauma-Protection.pdf
- Newman_Max_Power_Index.pdf
- Newman_NFL.pdf
- Newman_Snell_presentation.pdf
- Priya_Prasad_1999_IRCOBI.pdf
- Snellm2005final1204.pdf
- Thom_Peak_G_and_HIC_data_for_MCW.pdf
- USAARL_88-5.pdf
- Various_helmets_stds.pdf
- Versace_1971_Review_of_Severity_Index.pdf
- Yoga_HI_tolerance_IUTAM_Paper_011405.pdf