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NUWC Division Newport researcher explores how cavitation reduces impact, leading to a new football helmet design
Dr. David Jesse Daily, a mechanical engineer in the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport’s Sensors and Sonar Systems Department, holds a prototype of a football helmet he designed after researching acceleration-based cavitation. The new helmet lessens frontal impacts that can lead to concussion.