BIOMECHANICS INDUSTRY

Knowing the mass properties of bodies or parts of them is essential to understand their motion and their reaction when submitted to external forces. Test parts can be mannequins, bodies, or limbs, and all of the equipment that they carry or that carries them: helmets, respiratory masks, ejection seats, aircraft fixed seats, etc. They can also be limbs of animals such as race horses.

Space Electronics offers a range of mass properties measurement instruments for the biomechanics industry:

   • Our small combined mass properties instruments (KSR330) are used to determine the center of gravity and moment of inertia of small parts or entire bodies. The most common use for these machines is to test helmets and mannequins.

   • We also make small dedicated instruments that measure moment of inertia only (XR series) or center of gravity only (SE8913 and SE90168 series) for the same parts.

   • Our larger instruments (KSR1320) are used to test larger payloads, such as ejection seats with or without a mannequin installed.