Drop height (m) and velocity (m/s) | McIntosh & McCrory1 (mean of rugby union models) | Rugby union model (2002) (standard) | Canterbury brand honeycomb headgear by Body Armour | Albion Headpro | ||
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Standard | Modified | Standard1 | Modified | |||
In the standard and modified forms of the Honeycomb headgear the foam was 10 and 16 mm thick respectively. | ||||||
–, Test series stopped because of large headform accelerations. | ||||||
Lateral impacts | ||||||
0.3 (2.4) | 336 | 234 (346) | 276 (399) | 69 (91) | 114 | 83 (94) |
0.4 (2.8) | 449 | – | 494 – | 110 (165) | 141 | 134 (165) |
0.5 (3.1) | – | – | – | 387 (520) | 482 | 171 (231) |
0.6 (3.4) | – | – | – | 516 (623) | 524 | 370 (577) |
Centre front impacts | ||||||
0.3 (2.4) | No original data1 | No data collected | 689 (714) | 123 (191) | No original data1 | 206 (323) |
0.4 (2.8) | – | 273 (436) | 326 (506) |