Simulation of rat head deceleration with EUROPLEXUS

This report presents some preliminary calculations for the simulation of rat, monkey and human head behaviour (in particular of the brain) under imposed deceleration conditions by the EUROPLEXUS code. EUROPLEXUS (also abbreviated as EPX) is a computer code jointly developed by the French Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA DMT Saclay) and by EC-JRC. The code application domain is the numerical simulation of fast transient phenomena such as explosions, crashes and impacts in complex three-dimensional fluid-structure systems. The Cast3m software from CEA is used as a pre-processor to EPX when it is necessary to generate (or to manipulate) complex meshes. If not otherwise stated, the latest (2016) version of the Cast3m software, obtainable from the site, is used in the following mesh manipulations. The present report is the sequel to, which presented preliminary human head impact simulations on a rigid obstacle by EPX, using a simplified (3D spherical) geometry.