Sentence examples for head on impact from inspiring English sources

Two Swedish designers have come up with the Hövding – a sort of waterproof collar with an airbag helmet built into it which inflates around your head on impact.

The petechial hemorrhage areas in the anterior hypothalamic nuclei and neurohypophysis can be caused by forces transmitted to the head on impact, by increased ICP resulting from the brain edema, by shearing stresses that produce disruption of the pituitary stalk, and by the hypothalamic hypophyseal portal system [ 30].

In a head-on impact, the fenders, hood and suspension all fold up, helping to disperse the forces; the flanks of a vehicle offer far less vehicle structure -- only the thickness of a door -- to absorb the energy of a crash.

An associated development dating from the end of the 12th century was the incorporation of a rigid backplate into knightly armour; this, backed with several inches of padding, braced the man-at-arms against the shock of head-on impact and protected his kidneys from the cantle.

The theoretical milling dose that correlates well with its experimental analog was found to depend on the head-on impact energy dissipation rate.

As a consequence, the maximum run-up height was diminished by two orders of magnitude compared to head-on impact assuming an angle of about 10°.

N's old van, "Gizmo", met an ignominious fate in a collision with a UPS truck (N notes the VW performed surprisingly well in the head-on impact) and she and J now share a 1988 version, which they named "Hobbes".

Contraposing to three common uses of foundations (monopile, tripod, and jacket) of offshore wind turbines, this study is devoted to probe and compare the anti-impact performance due to a head-on impact by ships.

Based on the best identified relationships, and with assumption of equal mass and vehicle speeds, right--angle and head-on impact speeds of approximately 30 km/h are likely to produce MASI3+ injury probability of approximately 10%, considered a critical threshold in Safe System discussions.

Current risk analysis of jacket installations is very limited when it comes to jacket legs being head-on impacted by vessels.

In October 1996 FIA set about researching a driver restraint system for head-on impacts, in conjunction with McLaren and Mercedes-Benz.