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Optimal pressure comfort design for pilot helmets

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  • Ying Xu
  • Lian Yun Chen
  • Hai Bo Zhang
  • Xin Zhao
  • Yin Sheng Tian
  • Li Ding

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With the development of high-performance fighters, the function of pilot helmets is also constantly upgrading, and helmet-mounted display (HMD) has become a future development trend. To solve the inter-restriction between the eye position control and the pressure comfort under high overloads of pilot helmets, this paper optimizes the helmet design by building a head-helmet finite element model: (1) Under a 10 G overload, the deformation of helmet soft liner should not exceed 2 mm; and (2) The combination of liner materials used in various areas should satisfy the requirements of most comfortable head pressure distribution (Pfront: Ptop: Pside: Pback = 2:2:1:3). The study on 46 different combinations of materials finds that the helmet can meet both the eye position maintenance requirement under overloads and the requirement of comfortable pressure distribution when linear elastic materials with Young’s modulus of 1000 pa, 55000 pa and 65000 pa are used for the side, top and front parts of the head, and nonlinear elastic hyperfoam material with two-fold stress variation is used for the head back area.

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  • Ying Xu & Lian Yun Chen & Hai Bo Zhang & Xin Zhao & Yin Sheng Tian & Li Ding, 2018. "Optimal pressure comfort design for pilot helmets," Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(6), pages 437-443, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:gcmbxx:v:21:y:2018:i:6:p:437-443
    DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2018.1478966
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