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Original Articles

Improving Hybrid III Injury Assessment in Steering Wheel Rim to Chest Impacts Using Responses from Finite Element Hybrid III and Human Body Model

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Pages 196-205 | Received 02 Jan 2013, Accepted 03 May 2013, Published online: 17 Dec 2013

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