Dr. Dibb focuses on issues involving human injury biomechanics to evaluate the severity and mechanisms of injury in traumatic events. He also evaluates occupant kinematics and injuries during motor vehicle crashes, including: frontal, rear-end, side, and rollover impacts. His fields of expertise include injury tolerance and kinematics of the adult and pediatric head and neck as well as the biofidelity of crash test dummies. Dr. Dibb’s research experience includes cadaveric and computational studies of the head and neck in response dynamic frontal deceleration, compression, and tension modes of crash induced loading.
Prior to joining Exponent, Dr. Dibb was a Research Assistant of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University, working in the Injury and Orthopaedic Biomechanics Lab.
Dibb AT. Pediatric head and neck dynamic response: A computational study. Ph.D. Dissertation, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2011.
Dibb AT, Nightingale RW, Luck JF, Chancey VC, Fronheiser LE, Myers BS. Tension and combined tension-extension structural response and tolerance properties of the human male ligamentous cervical spine. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering 2009; 131:081008.
Luck JF, Nightingale RW, Loyd AM, Prange MT, Dibb AT, Song Y, Fronheiser LE, Myers BS. Tensile mechanical properties of the perinatal and pediatric PMHS osteoligamentous cervical spine. Stapp Car Crash Journal 2008; 52:107–134.
Dibb AT, Nightingale RW, Chancey VC, Fronheiser LE, Tran LN, Myers BS. Comparative structural neck responses of the THOR-NT, Hybrid III, and human in tension and bending. Stapp Car Crash Journal 2006; 50:567–583.
Prange MT, Luck JF, Dibb A, Van Ee CA, Nightingale RW, Myers BS. mechanical properties and anthropometry of the human infant head. Stapp Car Crash Journal 2004; 48:1–21.
Presentations and Published Abstracts
Dibb AT, Nightingale RW, Loyd AM, Luck JF, Bass CR, Myers BS. Examination of pediatric head and neck dynamics during frontal impact using a validated multibody dynamics model. 6th World Congress of Biomechanics, Singapore, 2010.
Loyd AM, Nightingale RW, Bass CR, Luck JF, Dibb AT, Myers. Pediatric head impact response. 6th World Congress of Biomechanics, Singapore, 2010.
Panzer M, Bass CR, presented by Dibb AT. Parametric study on the modeling aspects of blast brain injury. 6th World Congress of Biomechanics, Singapore, 2010.
Dibb AT, Nightingale RW, Myers BS. A comparison of methods for modeling neck muscle wrapping in finite element models. Proceedings, 35th International Workshop on Human Subjects for Biomechanical Research, San Diego, CA, 2007.
Dibb AT, Nightingale RW, Myers BS. Modeling and optimization of the neck musculature. SAE Government/Industry Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2007.
Luck JF, Prange M, Nightingale RW, Loyd A, Dibb A, Ottaviano D, Tran L, Myers BS. Tensile mechanical properties of the pediatric human osteoligamentous cervical spine. 5th World Congress of Biomechanics, Munich, Germany, 2006.
Myers BS, Dibb A, Luck J, Alexander P, Loyd A, Frush D, Nightingale R. Biomechanics of the pediatric head and spine: Applying the lessons learned from adults. Southern Consortium for Injury Biomechanics: 4th Annual Meeting, Homewood, AL, 2006.
Nightingale RW, Prange MT, Luck JF, Alexander P, Loyd AM, Dibb A, Ottaviano D, Tran LN, Myers BS. Mechanical properties of the human pediatric head and cervical spine. Southern Consortium for Injury Biomechanics: 3rd Annual Meeting, Birmingham, AL, 2005.
Technical Reports
Nightingale R, Dibb A, Hasija V, Huang A, Takhounts E. The effect of the THOR upper neck load cell mass on head kinematics and injury measures. Requested Report Docket to the SAE THOR Evaluation Task Group, 2007.