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1.0 Information Gathering |
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1.1 Summary of the Report |
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2 Evolution of Combat Helmets |
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2.2 New Materials and Designs |
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2.3 Recent Developments and Directions |
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3 Threats, Head Injuries, and Test Methodologies |
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3.2 Historical Patterns of Treatable Injuries |
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3.4 Advanced Combat Helmet Test Methodology and Links to Biomechanics |
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4.2 Ballistic Testing Methodology |
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4.3 Sources of Test Variation |
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4.4 Additional Measurement and Testing Issues |
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5 Helmet Performance Measures and Trends in Test Data |
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5.3 Summary of Results from Available Test Data |
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5.4 Implications for First Article Testing Protocols |
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6 First Article Testing Protocols For Resistance To Penetration: Statistical Considerations and Evaluation of Dod Test Plans |
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6.2 Statistical Considerations in Designing Test Plans for Resistance to Penetration |
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6.3 Statistical Evaluation of DoD Protocols for Resistance to Penetration |
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6.4 Examination of Separate Test Plans by Helmet Size |
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6.6 Future Test Protocols: Helmet as the Unit of Test |
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7 Test Protocols For Backface Deformation: Statistical Considerations and Assessment |
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7.2 Backface Deformation First Article Acceptance Testing Protocols and Their Properties |
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8.2 Lot Acceptance Testing Protocols |
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8.3 Evaluating Performance: Comparison of Operating Characteristic Curves |
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8.4 ANSI Standard and the Acceptance Quality Limit |
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8.5 Using the Helmet as the Unit of Testing |
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9 Characterization Tests for The Advanced Combat Helmet and Future Helmets |
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9.2 Characterization of the Advanced Combat Helmet Using Existing Test Data |
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9.3 Expanded Characterization Requiring Additional Data |
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9.5 Comparison with Industrial Practices |
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10 Linking Helmet Protection to Brain Injury |
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10.3 Head and Brain Injury Tolerances |
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10.4 Brain Tissue Injury: Experimental Results |
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10.5 Computational Modeling and Simulation |
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10.6 Mechanical and Constitutive Properties of Tissues |
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A Study Origination Documents |
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B Protocols for First Article and Lot Acceptance Testing |
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C Committee Meetings and Data-Gathering Activities |
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D Test Range Description and the Ballistic Testing Process |
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E Synopsis of Brain Injury Detection Methods |
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F Biographical Sketches of Committee Members |
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