The NFL and Football Research, Inc. have partnered with Duke researchers in order to find solutions for new helmets and other protective equipment to improve player safety.
The international program, HeadHealthTECH Challenges, is aimed to look the relationship between how a helmet performs and the properties of the pads in that helmet which produce that performance. The program believes that a mathematical relationship between head impact force and stress-strain properties of the helmet liner could help with ideas of future design strategies.
HeadHealthTECH Challenges is a series of innovation challenges that has a goal to find solutions for head protection and material science aimed to better understand head kinematics.