Skull Flexure from Blast Waves
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Total Pages | : 19 |
Release | : 2009 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:727282767 |
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Rating | : 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
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Book excerpt: Traumatic brain injury [TBI] has become a signature injury of current military conflicts, with debilitating, costly, and long-lasting effects. Although mechanisms by which head impacts cause TBI have been well-researched, the mechanisms by which blasts cause TBI are not understood. From numerical hydrodynamic simulations, we have discovered that non-lethal blasts can induce sufficient skull flexure to generate potentially damaging loads in the brain, even without a head impact. The possibility that this mechanism may contribute to TBI has implications for injury diagnosis and armor design.