Center for Injury Biomechanics
The Center for Injury Biomechanics
is an interdisciplinary
research center that combines the Virginia Tech College of Engineering
with the Wake Forest
University School of Medicine.
The Center for Injury
Biomechanics performs research investigating human tolerance to impact
loading.
The application of this research includes automobile safety, military
restraints, and sports biomechanics. The Center combines experimental
testing
dummy and human surrogates and computational modeling in order to
develop human
impact injury criteria. As a member of the Mechanical Engineering
Department and
the School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences at Virginia Tech, our
center
offers an excellent opportunity for graduate student education through
a wide
variety of biomechanics courses and research experience. In addition,
we have
numerous collaborative projects with the Wake Forest University School
of
Medicine. You may choose from topics to the left for more information
on the
research and teaching missions of the CIB. For additional information,
please
contact the Director at the address listed below.
Director: Stefan Duma, Ph. D. Mechanical Engineering Dpt., Randolph 100F, Mail Code 0238 Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540) 231-3945 duma@vt.edu |
Technical Director: Joel Stitzel, Ph. D. Biomedical Engineering Dpt., Medical Center Blvd. Winston-Salem, NC 27157 (336) 716-5597 jstitzel@wfubmc.edu |
Assistant Director: H. Clay Gabler III, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering Dpt., Randolph 100F, Mail Code 0238 Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540)231-7190 gabler@vt.edu |
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Virginia Tech / Wake Forest University Center for Injury Biomechanics