BookAnthony M.J. Bull, Jon Clasper, Peter F. Mahoney, editors.
Contents:
Part 1. Basic Science and Engineering
1. The fundamentals of blast physics
2. Biomechanics in blast
3. Behaviour of materials
4. Blast Loading of Cells
5. Biological Tissue Response
Part 2. Weapon Effects and the Human
6. Blast Injury Mechanism
Section 3. Principles of Investigating and Modelling Blast and Blast Mitigation
7. The examination of post-blast scenes
8. Clinical Forensic Investigation of the 2005 London Suicide Bombings
9. Modelling the blast environment and relating this to clinical injury- Experience from the 7/7 Inquest
10. The mortality review panel: a report on the deaths on operations of UK Service personnel 2002-2013
11. Physical Models- Tissue Simulants.-12. Physical Models- Organ models for primary blast
13. In Vivo Models of blast injury
14. Modelling Blast brain injury
15. Military wound ballistics base study: Development of a Skull/Brain Model
16. Surrogates of human injury
17. Computational methods in continuum mechanics
18. Energised fragments: bullets and fragment simulating projectiles
Part 4. Applications of blast injury research: Solving clinical problems
19. Coagulopathy and inflammation: an overview of blast effects
20. Foot and Ankle Blast Injuries
21. Traumatic Amputation
22. Testing and development of mitigation systems for tertiary blast
23. Pelvic blast injury
24. Behind Armour blunt trauma (BABT)
25. Blast Injury to the Spine
26. Primary Blast Lung Injury
27. Regional effec ts of explosive devices: The neck
28. Optimising the anatomical coverage provided by military body Armour systems
29. Blast injuries of the Eye
30. Hearing damage through blast
31. Peripheral Nerve Injuries.