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A team of researchers and engineers at the University of Michigan undertook a four-year challenge sponsored by the NFL to create a helmet with better protection from brain injuries from sports. Current helmets worn by football players, including the pros, reduce the force put on the skull during a collision. However, the current helmets do

Vicis, a self-proclaimed “technology company” is one of the many companies who are making an effort to tackle one of football’s biggest problems, concussions. This Seattle-based firm developed a helmet called the Zero1, “a multilayered, flexible helmet that’s particularly adept at diminishing rotational and linear impact forces. Specifically, the helmet was constructed to utilize four separate layers that work in perfect harmony with one another. It’s top layer, the Lode Shell, absorbs impact by locally deforming a specific part of a helmet” (Stella, 2016). The Zero1’s next layer is the Core Layer, “essentially bends and buckles in all directions to mitigate linear and rotational forces. Beneath that lies the Arch Shell, the interior of the helmet specifically

Football has a serious problem with head injuries, and after years of outright denial, organizations across the country are finally acknowledging it through payouts, research grants, and initiatives like the Head Health Challenge, which gives grants to companies working on advancements in football-related head health. One of those grants recipients was VICIS, a Seattle based company who’s designed a new, flexible helmet called Zero1.

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American football has been around for over one hundred years, and along with the sport has been the need to provide proper safety for the players. An assortment of padding has been instituted in the game that protects against most blunt trauma including blows to the shoulders, mid section, and legs. In an attempt to prevent fracture of the skull, helmets were designed. However, studies have shown that helmets do little to nothing to prevent concussive damage to the brain. A polycarbonate shell is used as the outer housing for regulation football helmets, but along with this material, the materials used on the inside of the helmet are just as, if not more, important. The purpose of this report is to analyze the materials used in current football helmet design and the improvements being made in the field of materials science in order to combat the severe number of concussions suffered by NFL players.

Recently, I read an article about how engineering students at NYU took on the task of improving wrestling headgear. The conventional wrestling headgear only covers the ears and provides little protection. They invented a helmet called the Mercado – named after the inventor – which covers the entire head and is made from a type of memory form. Mercado worked with mechanical and biomedical engineers to help develop the product. This collaboration should benefit future generations of athletes around the world.

“Before, they killed us with hatred and without method; today they are exterminating us without hatred but with method, and this is serious. It is no longer men we are up against, it is machines (Treblinka).” Treblika was designed as a Nazi extermination camp occupied in Poland. The camp was consisted of two separate units; Treblinka I was a forced-labor camp, and the second camp, Treblinka II, was an extermination camp. It was operated between 1941 to 1944 and approximately 850,000 men, women and children were murdered, including more than 800,000 Jews. (Niss) However, under the Nazis’ dreadful torture, some Jews gathered together to plan for the revolt.

The outer shell of the helmet has 2 layers of carbon fiber. Carbon fiber is extremely strong and light. The construction of the outer shell begins with a thin layer of gel coat. After that a special resign is added to the shell. The special resign includes several types of glass, carbon, Kevlar, and other exotic fibers and weaves. Kevlar is what makes carbon fiber helmets extremely durable and light. All that added together is what gives the outer shell its glossy finish look. Underneath the outer shell is the BEADALL liner. BEADALL liner is a foam layer that is made of polystyrene or polypropylene. This layer of foam is put in the crown of the helmet, which makes it absorbs energy that the outer shell didn’t absorb at the time of impact. The last piece of the helmet is the form-fitting layer that is made out of nylon or Nomex, which is a fire retardant material that protects a racer from getting burned in case a fire does happen. You can also find that Nomex is used in firesuits. Today all race helmets have to have a snell rating in order to race. The snell rating is accumulated by a series of tests of impact done to the helmet, to see how well it holds up and if it flies off the test subjects head.

NASA has always had the best equipment available to them when training their astronauts to live in a reduced gravity environment. Now their equipment is being used to help treat and prevent many different sports injuries. The Alter-G anti-gravity treadmill is being implemented in many rehabilitation centers for use as sports injury therapy.

The goal of this project is to work towards answering the question of whether or not football helmets promote neck injuries. In order to gather data, a U of R team made a machine that rapidly changes speed while translating from side to side to stimulate a rotational acceleration and velocity about the head and neck due to an angular displacement. The purpose of this machine is to simulate an unexpected and sudden change in motion of the head in order to analyse the resulting motion. The data collected was the rotational position of the head, the linear position of the cart, and the linear position of a point on the body. All measurements were made with and without a helmet. In order to answer the main question, there had to be a further understanding of how the mechanics of the head and neck change with the addition of a helmet. To achieve this, MATLAB was used to compute the resulting velocities and accelerations, the reaction forces at the neck, and the moment about the base of the neck. From these calculations, it is possible to make observations about how the addition of a helmet affects the dynamics of the head and neck.

In a Army Research Lab in North of Baltimore scientist are try to make the next evolution of warfare innovation. They are probably going to use liquids to make there be less injuries and it will soften the empact. They also want to prevent the whiping of their heads when it hits surface. They think that the equipment will do the same jobs as they

Vacuum mattresses have been found to work just as well at spinal immobilization, if not better. According to DeMond, “the Vacu-Mattress provides an excellent spine protection surface. It can be contoured to hold the head in place, and it often can be contoured or have forehead tape added to block flexion, no c-collar needed. And you have the added benefit of being able to visualize the neck.” (DeMond.) This device protects the spine and can prevent flexion, extension and lateral movements of the neck. In addition to doing the same job of a long, spine board, the vacuum mattresses are much faster in their application than a traditional long board and cervical collar. They are much more comfortable for the patients, as

The heavy-duty foam midsole comprises an unabridged Nike Air unit for weightless padding and collision safety.

     For example, in football the reason for people not to get concussions every time the get knocked in the head is the cushioning inside the helmet. This same cushioning comes from aircraft passenger seats made by NASA.

The paper provides analysis of Ice-Fili, and the paper reveals that Ice-Fili is one of the important ice cream producers in Russia. However, the entrant of foreign ice cream producers such as Nestle has made Ice-Fili to face stiff competitions within the industry. Porter five analysis reveals that Ice-Fili has not been able to compete effectively with foreign companies because the company still relies on imported equipment and technology and traditional method of production, which lead to high cost of production.