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This paper relates human oblique head-neck kinematics to human frontal and lateral head-neck kinematics for three subjects of varying anthropometry. Head-neck kinematic response to indirect impact acceleration for an oblique test is compared to the superposition of the head/neck behavior of appropriate frontal and lateral tests for the same subject. The results have important implications in terms of the complexity required in the design and validation of omni-directional biofidelic crash test manikins and mathematical models of human head-neck response.

This paper presents the National Crash Survival Data Bank (NCSDB), a data base of impact acceleration test data available to researchers and modelers. We emphasize the contents and implementation of the NCSDB, a web-accessible object-relational data base housed at the National Biodynamics Laboratory (NBDL). Past and potential modeling applications of the data stored in the NCSDB are discussed.