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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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