To include a specific part on a racing machine, that part needs to be capable of an excess of wear and tear. It needs to endure higher forces than road-going machines, and it needs to be reliable over ...

As Joshua Hanson can attest, it’s not the fall that’ll kill you; it’s the introduction of abrupt deceleration forces imparted by materials that lack elasticity. In short, if something cushions your ...

"After six months of zero gravity, you don't want to be slammed back into the atmosphere, but you start feeling this gentle push on your back and that is the deceleration forces building up, the G ...

Background Non-accidental head injury (NAHI) is a form of child abuse where a perpetrator may violently subject an infant to repeated acceleration–deceleration forces with or without head impact, ...

In the early jet fighter days, nobody knew how much G-force the human body could withstand. Testing the limits of survivability came down to human testing. Today, we owe much of that knowledge to Dr.

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Formula 1 drivers endure some of the most extreme physical conditions in professional sports. Strapped into a cockpit barely bigger than a bathtub, they experience forces that make a rollercoaster ...

Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) have become an increasing concern in modern society, particularly over the past century. Historically, our ancestors faced external forces that shaped the evolution of ...