Citation

Nguyen TT, Pearce AP, Carpanen D, Sory D, Grigoriadis G, Newell N, Clasper JC, Bull A, Proud WG, Masouros SD. J. R. Army Med. Corps 2019; 165(1): 33-37.

Affiliation

Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, UK Royal Army Medical Corps)

DOI

10.1136/jramc-2018-000966

PMID

29794172

Abstract

Injuries sustained due to attacks from explosive weapons are multiple in number, complex in nature, and not well characterised. Blast may cause damage to the human body by the direct effect of overpressure, penetration by highly energised fragments, and blunt trauma by violent displacements of the body. The ability to reproduce the injuries of such insults in a well-controlled fashion is essential in order to understand fully the unique mechanism by which they occur, and design better treatment and protection strategies to alleviate the resulting poor long-term outcomes. This paper reports a range of experimental platforms that have been developed for different blast injury models, their working mechanism, and main applications. These platforms include the shock tube, split-Hopkinson bars, the gas gun, drop towers and bespoke underbody blast simulators.

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Language: en

Keywords

blast; blast injury; experiments; interdisciplinary