TY - JOUR
T1 - Warfighter protection
T2 - From Benchtop to battlefield
AU - Trexler, Morgana M.
AU - Wickwire, Alexis C.
AU - Luong, Quang T.
AU - Alphonse, Vanessa D.
AU - Ott, Kyle A.
AU - Zhang, Jiangyue
AU - Dymond, Jessica E.
AU - Harrigan, Timothy P.
AU - Carneal, Catherine M.
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: This material is based on work supported by the following organizations: the Office of Naval Research (Contract W911QY-12-C-0008); the U.S. Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground, Natick Contracting Division (Contract W911QY-15-C-0039); the Naval Sea Systems Command (Contract N00024-13-D-6400, Task Orders VKW01 and VKW02); the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (Naval Sea Systems Command Contract N00024-13-D-6400, Task Order VKP01); the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Office of Research Protections (Grant W81XWH-09-2-0168); and APL (independent research and development funding).
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PY - 2018/10
Y1 - 2018/10
N2 - Our warfighters are exposed to an increasing variety and severity of ballistic, blast, and underbody blast threats on the battlefield. These threats lead to complex injuries that are not well understood, making protection and treatment challenging. Studying injury mechanisms is critical for our warfighters, but recreating these events is dangerous, costly, and difficult to control. To that end, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has developed several test methods, test surrogates, and models that are being used to controllably create battlefield threat conditions in a laboratory environment and investigate effects of these threats on the human body. Models range from in vitro cellular models to physical test surrogates to computational models of the human body. This article describes some controlled laboratory test methods and test surrogates and devices APL has developed and used to simulate ballistic, blast, and underbody blast battlefield conditions, and provides examples of their use and applicability to understanding battlefield injury.
AB - Our warfighters are exposed to an increasing variety and severity of ballistic, blast, and underbody blast threats on the battlefield. These threats lead to complex injuries that are not well understood, making protection and treatment challenging. Studying injury mechanisms is critical for our warfighters, but recreating these events is dangerous, costly, and difficult to control. To that end, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has developed several test methods, test surrogates, and models that are being used to controllably create battlefield threat conditions in a laboratory environment and investigate effects of these threats on the human body. Models range from in vitro cellular models to physical test surrogates to computational models of the human body. This article describes some controlled laboratory test methods and test surrogates and devices APL has developed and used to simulate ballistic, blast, and underbody blast battlefield conditions, and provides examples of their use and applicability to understanding battlefield injury.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85056344704
SN - 0270-5214
VL - 34
SP - 359
EP - 373
JO - Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest (Applied Physics Laboratory)
JF - Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest (Applied Physics Laboratory)
IS - 3
ER -