Facilities

HEAD Lab's Drop Tower Helmet Test Rig

Introducing HEAD Lab's Helmet Test Facilities

Traumatic brain injuries are a huge problem that HEAD Lab is working to prevent. Our drop tower helmet test rig reproduces oblique impacts, a key cause of brain injury. Video created by Itziar de Pedro Sarasola (undergraduate design engineering student).Play video
Traumatic brain injuries are a huge problem that HEAD Lab is working to prevent. Our drop tower helmet test rig reproduces oblique impacts, a key cause of brain injury. Video created by Itziar de Pedro Sarasola (undergraduate design engineering student).

Traumatic brain injuries are a huge problem that HEAD Lab is working across a range of disciplines to prevent, from sport to road traffic collisions. We introduce our drop tower helmet test rig which is capable of reproducing oblique impacts, a key causation of brain injury and provide some context with how this links to our computational modelling work. For more information about the drop tower or if you are interested in using our facilities, please contact Mazdak Ghajari (m.ghajari@imperial.ac.uk).