TY - JOUR T1 - Experimental platforms to study blast injury JF - Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps JO - J R Army Med Corps SP - 33 LP - 37 DO - 10.1136/jramc-2018-000966 VL - 165 IS - 1 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 Y1 - 2019/02/01 UR - http://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/165/1/33.abstract N2 - 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. ER -