Analysis of Protective Headgear

In the previous chapter, soccer heading simulations were performed and validated against the literature. It is evident that the FEA predictions of the linear and angular head accelerations were in a good agreement with the published experimental data of soccer heading. In this chapter, similar simulations were conducted, but with the inclusion of a headgear modelled on the forehead of the head model. The subsequent sections describe the methods and discuss the results obtained from the aforementioned FE simulations.