Overview
BRC specializes in the analysis of the human body’s response to forces or other potentially harmful factors, in order to determine if or how injuries are caused.
BRC employs full-time consultants who are physicians, most of whom also have engineering degrees, or who have a Ph.D. degree in engineering. Our consultants have a wide range of medical specialties, and the ability to integrate the engineering and physics of a traumatic event along with the associated medical issues.
Practice Areas
Featured work
NASA—Columbia Accident
In 2004, NASA retained BRC to conduct an injury causation analysis of the seven crew members of the Columbia STS-107 which broke up during re-entry on February 1, 2003. BRC's work was completed in 2006 and NASA released its complete report on the Columbia accident to the public on December 30, 2008. (see NASA Report)
- Compressive Neck Injury and Its Relationship to Head Contact & Torso Motion During Vehicle Rollover
- The Epidemiology of Facial Fractures in Automotive Collisions
- Human Head and Neck Kinematics after Low Velocity Rear-End Impacts: Understanding "Whiplash"
- Validation and Application of a Methodology to Calculate Head Accelerations and Neck Loading