Research & Testing

Here you will find descriptions of our current and ongoing research interests. You can also access a variety of professional publications contributed by Jeff Wheeler, Vector Scientific's President and Director of Biomechanics.

Areas of Research:

• Auto Impact

• Sports and Recreation

• Slip, Trip, and Fall

• Occupational

New High-speed Cameras!!
We now have a high-speed digital color video system with recording rates up to 2000 frames per second. This new system enables us to capture and analyze such events as: vehicle dynamics, occupant kinematics, airbag performance, human movement, and sport biomechanics.

Airbag Deployment

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Case Studies

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1. Bicycle Seat Pressure Testing and Analysis

2. Solving a Colorado Ski Fatality

3. Nail Gun Knee Injury and Product Testing

4. New Neck Injury Dynamics in Rear-end Impacts

5. PCL, ACL, MCL Rupture in Auto Accident

6. Forensic Investigation of a Lumbar Disc Injury in an Industrial Setting

7. Injury Mitigation Produced By Pole Padding on Ski Terrain

8. Determination of Snowboarder vs. Snowboard Impact Configuration

9. Lateral Tibial Plateau Fracture From a Stair Descent Misstep

10. Unique Pedestrian Impact Dynamics and Trajectory

11. Commercial Truck Accident Reconstruction

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