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ArticleFrontiers in neurology2020

Using Gas-Driven Shock Tubes to Produce Blast Wave Signatures.

Rubbel Kumar, Ashish Nedungadi

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Article in Frontiers in neurology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Rubbel KumarThe Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States.
Ashish NedungadiThe Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States.
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory · USUniversity of Maryland, College Park · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The increased incidence of improvised explosives in military conflicts has brought about an increase in the number of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) observed. Although physical injuries are caused by shrapnel and the immediate blast, encountering the blast wave associated with improvised explosive devices (IEDs) may be the cause of traumatic brain injuries experienced by warfighters. Assessment of the effectiveness of personal protective equipment (PPE) to mitigate TBI requires understanding the interaction between blast waves and human bodies and the ability to replicate the pressure signatures caused by blast waves. Prior research has validated compression-driven shock tube designs as a laboratory method of generating representative pressure signatures, or Friedlander-shaped blast profiles; however, shock tubes can vary depending on their design parameters and not all shock tube designs generate acceptable pressure signatures. This paper presents a comprehensive numerical study of the effects of driver gas, driver (breech) length, and membrane burst pressure of a constant-area shock tube. Discrete locations in the shock tube were probed, and the blast wave evolution in time at these points was analyzed to determine the effect of location on the pressure signature. The results of these simulations are used as a basis for suggesting guidelines for obtaining desired blast profiles.

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blast waveCFDprimary blast injuryshock tubeshock tube parameters

Identifiers

PMID32153491
PMCPMC7047208
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