Blast Injury Science and Engineering

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Basic Science and Engineering

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Fundamentals of Blast Physics

      • William G. Proud

      Pages 3-16

   3. Biomechanics in Blast

      • Anthony M. J. Bull

      Pages 17-31

   4. Behaviour of Materials

      • Spyros Masouros, Dan J. Pope

      Pages 33-55

   5. Blast Loading of Cells

      • Katherine A. Brown

      Pages 57-70

   6. Biological Tissue Response

      • Angelo Karunaratne

      Pages 71-84

3. Weapon Effects and the Human

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. Blast Injury Mechanism

      • Dafydd S. Edwards, Jon Clasper

      Pages 87-104

4. Principles of Investigating and Modelling Blast and Blast Mitigation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. The Examination of Post-blast Scenes

      • Karl Harrison, Nadia Abdul-Karim

      Pages 107-113

   3. Clinical Forensic Investigation of the 2005 London Suicide Bombings

      • Hasu D. L. Patel, Steven Dryden

      Pages 115-128

   4. Modelling the Blast Environment and Relating this to Clinical Injury: Experience from the 7/7 Inquest

      • Alan E. Hepper, Dan J. Pope, M. Bishop, Emrys Kirkman, A. Sedman, Robert J. Russell et al.

      Pages 129-134

   5. The Mortality Review Panel: A Report on the Deaths on Operations of UK Service Personnel 2002–2013

      • Robert J. Russell, Nicholas C. A. Hunt, Russell Delaney

      Pages 135-143

   6. Physical Models: Tissue Simulants

      • John Breeze, Debra J. Carr

      Pages 145-153

   7. Physical Models: Organ Models for Primary Blast

      • Hari Arora, Theofano Eftaxiopoulou

      Pages 155-159

   8. In-Vivo Models of Blast Injury

      • Theofano Eftaxiopoulou

      Pages 161-171

   9. Modelling Blast Brain Injury

      • Rita Campos-Pires, Robert Dickinson

      Pages 173-182

   10. Military Wound Ballistics Case Study: Development of a Skull/Brain Model

       • Debra J. Carr, Stephen Champion

       Pages 183-188

   11. Surrogates of Human Injury

       • Diagarajen Carpanen, Spyros Masouros, Nicolas Newell

       Pages 189-198

This book aims to help clinicians who seek to conduct science and engineering based research on blast injuries as well as engineers and scientists who seek to apply their expertise to address blast injuries.

Blast injuries are prevalent. While the current conflict in Afghanistan is reaching its final stages, the legacy of landmines will sadly ensure that injuries and fatalities will continue to occur. The understanding of these injuries and the science behind their mitigation and treatment is a multi-disciplinary effort. Current knowledge has rapidly grown due to recent conflicts, yet the learning has not yet been captured in any formal way.

• Ballistic injury
• Blast Injuries
• Blast Injury Treatment
• Injury Mechanisms
• Injury Mitigation research
• Trauma Surgery

“This multiauthored book describes the physics, materials response, engineering principles, and clinical impact of blast injury. … Basic scientists, materials specialists, clinical investigators, and clinicians treating victims of blast injury are an appropriate audience for this book from medical, engineering, military, and law enforcement agencies all based in the U.K. … Engineers will appreciate the mathematics of explosion force, while clinicians will find helpful reviews of physics and incident modeling.” (David J. Dries, Doody's Book Reviews, September, 2017)

• Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

  Anthony M. J. Bull

• Frimley Park Foundation Trust, Frimley, United Kingdom

  Jon Clasper

• The ICT Centre, Birmingham Research Park, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Peter F. Mahoney

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