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The methods discussed earlier are applied to the seat-occupant-restraint system of an aircraft. A description of a computer-aided analysis environment, including a multibody model of the occupant and a nonlinear finite element model of the seat, is provided, which can be used to re-construct variety of crash scenarios. These detailed models are useful in studies of the potential human injuries in a crash environment, injuries to the head, the upper spinal column, and the lumbar area, and also structural behavior of the seat. The problem of reducing head injuries to an occupant in case of a head contact with the surroundings (bulkhead, interior walls, or instrument panels), is then considered. The head impact scenario is re-constructed using a nonlinear visco-elastic type contact force model. A measure of the optimal values for the bulkhead compliance and displacement requirements is obtained in order to keep the possibility of a head injury as little as possible. This information could in turn be used in the selection of suitable materials for the bulkhead, instrument panels, or interior walls of an aircraft. The developed analysis tool also allows aircraft designers/engineers to simulate a variety of crash events in order to obtain information on mechanisms of crash protection, designs of seats and safety features, and biodynamic responses of the occupants as related to possible injuries. 

As an application of the theory discussed earlier, the crash responses of aircraft occupant/stnicture will be presented. To improve aircraft crash safety, conditions critical to occupants survival during a crash must be known. In view of the importance of this problem, studies of post-crash dynamic behavior of victims are necessary in order to reduce severe injuries. In this study, crash dynamics program SOM-LA/TA (Seat Occupant Model - Light Aircraft / Transport Aircraft) was used (13,14]. Modifications were performed in the program for reconstruction of an occupant s head impact with the interior walls or bulkhead. A viscoelastic-type contact force model of exponential form was used to represent the compliance characteristics of the bulkhead. Correlated studies of analytical simulations with impact sled test results were accomplished. A parametric study of the coefficients in the contact force model was then performed in order to obtain the correlations between the coefficients and the Head Injury Criteria. A measure of optimal values for the bulkhead compliance and displacement requirements was thus achieved in order to keep the possibility of a head injury as little as possible. This information could in turn be usm in the selection of suitable materials for the bulkhead, instrument panel, or interior walls of an aircraft. Before introducing the contact force model representing the occupant head impacting the interior walls, descriptions of impact sled test facilities, multibody dynamics and finite element models of the occupant/seat/restraint system, duplication of experiments, and measure of head injury are provided. 

Use of impact sled tests is the most common technique for determining the postcrash dynamic behavior of an aircraft occupant. The impact sled and target tracking facilities available at National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) were used to conduct a study on occupant responses in a crash environment. Parallel analysis capabilities, including a multibody dynamic model of the occupant and a finite element model of seat structures, have been developed. The analysis has been used to reasonably predict the Head Injury Criteria (HIC) as compart with the experimental impact sled tests for an occupant head impacting a panel. A nonlinear viscoelastic contact force model was shown to better predict the experimental data on the contact forces than the Hertzian models. Suitable values of the coefficients in the contact force model were obtained and the correlations between the coefficients, HIC, and maximum deformation of the front panel were determined. A non-sled test method of pendulum-type has been designed to determine the head injuries as well as the performance of each particular impact absorber. 

An alternative way of deriving the BET equation is to express the problem in statistical-mechanical rather than kinetic terms. Adsorption is explicitly assumed to be localized the surface is regarded as an array of identical adsorption sites, and each of these sites is assumed to form the base of a stack of sites extending out from the surface each stack is treated as a separate system, i.e. the occupancy of any site is independent of the occupancy of sites in neighbouring stacks—a condition which corresponds to the neglect of lateral interactions in the BET model. The further postulate that in any stack the site in the ith layer can be occupied only if all the underlying sites are already occupied, corresponds to the BET picture in which condensation of molecules to form the ith layer can only take place on to molecules which are present in the (i — l)th layer. 

Figure 2. The structural energy difference (a) and the magnetic moment (b) as a function of the occupation of the canonical d-band n corresponding to the Fe-Co alloy. The same lines as in Fig. 1 are used for the different structures. In (b) the concentration dependence of the Stoner exchange integral Id used for the spin-polarized canonical d-band model calculations is shown as a thin dashed line with the solid circles. The value of Id for pure Fe and Co, calculated from LSDA and scaled to canonical units, are also shown in (b) as solid squares.

In an attempt to visualize the site of action of ethanol, tryptophan mutation at position S270, TM2 and TM3 domains of the GABAa a2 subunit were modeled as antiparallel a-helices. The model showed that the region between S270 TM2 and TM3 contains a small cavity that may not be filled by side chains of adjoining helices. In contrast, the model of the S270W mutation demonstrated that the side chain of tryptophan completely occupied this cavity, which could eliminate occupation of the putative cavity by ethanol. 

In this chapter we meet three increasingly sophisticated models of molecular shape. The first considers molecular shape to be a consequence merely of the electrostatic (coulombic) interaction between pairs of electrons. The other two models are theories that describe the distribution of electrons and molecular shape in terms of the occupation of orbitals. 

Summary.—The assumption that atomic nuclei consist of closely packed spherons (aggregates of neutrons and protons in localized Is orbitals—mainly helions and tritions) in concentric layers leads to a simple derivation of a subsubshell occupancy diagram for nucleons and a simple explanation of magic numbers. Application of the close-packed-spheron model of the nucleus to other problems, including that of asymmetric fission, will be published later.13... 

The theoretical description based on the lattice or cell models of the liquid uses the language contributing states of occupancy . Nevertheless, these states ot occupancy are not taken to be real, and the models are, fundamentally, of the continuum type. The contribution to the free energy function of different states of occupancy of the basic lattice section is analogous to the contribution to the energy of a quantum mechanical system of terms in a configuration interaction series. 

The egress and evacuation simulations are not truly fire models. They were developed in response to the need to evaluate impact of fires on the occupants of a building. Most egress models describe a structure as a network of paths along which the occupants travel. The occupant travel rates are derived from people movement studies and are often stochastic. Factors that are included in the travel rates are the age and ability of the occupant, crowding, and the type of travel path. 

Fluorescence decay measurements have also allowed one to propose a qualitative model of film occupancy in which both amorphous sites and crystal-line-amorphous interfaces would be occupied by ester molecules, with predominance of the former ones [291]. 

The second model, the so-called gradient-flux law, is considered to be more fundamental, although it is based on a more restrictive physical picture. In contrast to the mass transfer model, in which no assumption is made regarding the spatial separation of subsystems A and B, in the gradient-flux law it is assumed that the subsystems and the distance between them, Axa/b, become infinitely small. For very small subsystems the term occupation number loses its meaning and must be replaced by occupation density or concentration. Obviously, the difference in occupation density tends toward zero, as well. Yet the ratio of the two differences, Aoccupa-tion density Axa/b, is equal to the spatial gradient of the occupation density and usually different from zero ... 

Conditions such as DjDj+l = DjHj — D HJ+i = 0 follow immediately from the model. Let kx be the rate constant of dimer formation. Then the probability rates of dimer formation per radiation dose, PUi(Sj), which depend upon the nature of the occupation of a set of sites, Sj, are given in Table I. The probability of the reverse reaction of the dimer (jj + 1),... 

Simple mathematical calculations by the first pharmacologists in the 1930s indicated that structurally specific drugs exert their action in very small doses and do not act on all molecules of the body but only on certain ones, those that constitute the drug receptors. For example, Clark [407] calculated that ouabain applied to the cells of the heart ventricle, isolated from the toad, would cover only 2.5% of the cellular surface. These observations prompted Clark [407,408] to apply the mathematical approaches used in enzyme kinetics to the effects of chemicals on tissues, and this formed the basis of the occupancy theory for drug-receptor interaction. Thus, pharmacological receptor models preceded accurate knowledge of receptors by many years. 

Time is not an independent variable in the presented models. Dynamic behavior is either a consequence of the pharmacokinetics or the observed lag time by means of the effect compartment. Dynamic models from the occupancy theory and described by differential equations, such as (10.4), are scarce [428,429]. 

From a modeling point of view, the last equilibrium assumption that can be relaxed, for the processes depicted in Figure 10.1, is H4, between the activated receptors (v variable in the occupancy model) and the response E. Instead of the activated receptors directly producing the response, they interfere with some other process, which in turn produces the response E. This mechanism is usually described mathematically with a transducer function T which is no longer linear (cf. Section 10.4.1). This type of pharmacodynamic model is called indirect response and includes modeling of the response process usually through a linear differential equation of the form... 

Figure 6.3 shows the basis of the adsorption model, and the four rate constants used. For simplicity, we assume a Langmuir isotherm model for the occupation of the interface. If the fraction of interface occupied is then the adsorption from the octanol side is... 

Ali N, Tardif R. 1999. Toxicokinetic modeling of the combined exposure to toluene and n-hexane in rats and humans. J Occup Health 41 95-103. 

High-low Dose Extrapolation. No high-low dose extrapolation was specifically addressed by the Bois and Paxman model. However, modeling of human occupational exposure (see above) did address both high and low concentrations. 

An alternative and elegant derivation of the BET equation is by a statistical mechanical treatment (Hill, 1946 Steele, 1974). The adsorbed phase is pictured as a lattice gas that is molecules are located at specific sites in all layers. The first layer is localized and these molecules act as sites for molecules in the second layer, which in turn act as sites for molecules in the third layer, and so on for the higher layers. As the surface is assumed to be planar and uniform, it follows that all surface sites are identical. It is also assumed that the occupation probability of a site is independent of the occupancy of neighbouring sites. This is equivalent to the assumption that there are no lateral interactions between adsorbed molecules. In accordance with the BET model, the probability for site occupation is zero unless all its underlying sites are occupied. Furthermore, it is assumed that it is only the molecular partition function for the first layer which differs from that for molecules in the liquid state. 

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