A finite element approach and experiments to assess the effectiveness of hip protectors

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• Publication year

  2004

• Venue

  Technology and Health Care

• Publication date

  2004-01-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3233/THC-2004-12105PMID 15096686
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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