Neck model where neck injuries can be examined

A new physical neck model where all neck injuries and particularly the “whiplash” neck injuries are examined for “adult crash test dummies” used in vehicle crash tests in the vehicle safety field, comprises:

• a number of connection interface components, wherein the number of connection interface components are configured for installation of the neck model to a crash test dummy;
• five intervertebral discs, wherein the five intervertebral discs are positioned between vertebra 3 and vertebra 7;
• seven vertebrae, wherein the seven vertebrae are modeled based on scanned human cadaver data, and wherein the five intervertebral discs and eight types of ligaments connect the seven vertebrae with each other;
• four muscle interfaces, wherein the four muscle interfaces are formed as a plurality of cylindrical holes inside the elements used in the neck model and the four muscle interfaces provide stiffness to a neck by a plurality of muscles passing therein;
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• at least one sensor set installed on a bottom neck vertebra of the neck model in order to collect physical data of a collision and to detect a plurality of loads acting on the neck model.