Health Hazards Assessment for Blast Overpressure Exposures
Abstract
The Army needs to set blast overpressure exposure standards that will protect soldiers in training against adverse effects from blast coming from a variety of weapons in a variety of surroundings. JAYCOR is developing biomechanical models that compute the tissues level response due to external blast loading and correlations of that response to pathology and lethality. To validate the models, animal test data has been organized into a database. Trends in the data have been determined that are independent of the models and agreement between the correlations and observations have been good for all level of blasts and animal species. The future work will refine the pathology prediction by location and provide a probabilistically-based methodology for making health hazards assessment.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1994
- Accession Number
- ADA283352
Entities
People
- James H. Stuhmiller