PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Thuy-Tien Nguyen
AU  - A P Pearce
AU  - D Carpanen
AU  - D Sory
AU  - G Grigoriadis
AU  - N Newell
AU  - J Clasper
AU  - A Bull
AU  - W G Proud
AU  - S D Masouros
TI  - Experimental platforms to study blast injury
AID  - 10.1136/jramc-2018-000966
DP  - 2019 Feb 01
TA  - Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
PG  - 33--37
VI  - 165
IP  - 1
4099  - http://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/165/1/33.short
4100  - http://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/165/1/33.full
SO  - J R Army Med Corps2019 Feb 01; 165
AB  - Injuries sustained due to attacks from explosive weapons are multiple in number, complex in nature, and not well characterised. Blast may cause damage to the human body by the direct effect of overpressure, penetration by highly energised fragments, and blunt trauma by violent displacements of the body. The ability to reproduce the injuries of such insults in a well-controlled fashion is essential in order to understand fully the unique mechanism by which they occur, and design better treatment and protection strategies to alleviate the resulting poor long-term outcomes. This paper reports a range of experimental platforms that have been developed for different blast injury models, their working mechanism, and main applications. These platforms include the shock tube, split-Hopkinson bars, the gas gun, drop towers and bespoke underbody blast simulators.