The reading recommendations for the course is found below. A majority of the course folder content comes from the following textbook: A M Nahum & J W Melvin, Accidental Injury, Biomechanics and Prevention.

In the table below the recommendations concerning the literature in the course is presented. All marked in bold is strongly recommended that you read before the lecture.


Topic	Literature
Course Introduction	Human Surrogates for Injury Biomechanics Research (Crandall et al. 2011) Course PM Intended Learning Outcomes
Anatomy	AI: Brain Injury Biomechanics TB: Head Injuries pp. 63-65 TB: Spinal Injuries pp.95-99
Engery absorption	AI: Biomechanics of Human Trauma: Head Protection
Viscoelasticity	An Introduction to Viscoelasticity
Project Introduction	The Project
FEM 1, 2	Dynamic Finite Element Methods
LS Dyna Intro	Introduction to LS DYNA and LS PrePost
Soft & Muscle Tissue	AI: Biomechanics of Soft Tissues Muscle Tissue
Model generation and meshing
Experimental lab	The Laboratory Assignment
Head Injury Mechanism	Head Injury Biomechanics & Criteria StappKleiven-07S-27
Bone Tissue	Mechanical Properties of Bone
Half Time Seminar
Neck Injury Mechanism	TB: Spinal Injuries pp.99-142
Safety in Cars

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