Simulates the Tissue Damage from Small Arms Projectiles and Fragments Penetrating the Musculoskeletal System.

Abstract

This effort used different configurations of ordnance gelatin as surrogate materials to develop an analytical and experimental methodology that describes mechanical damage to human tissue from penetrating wounds. The assumptions employed were specific to the lower extremities and battlefield threats but could be relaxed to generalize the methodology to other body regions, other threats, and other types of wounds. A software package based on this methodology was developed to predict wound geometries. This software was interfaced with a virtual anatomy based on the Visible Human database to describe tissue damage relative to the anatomy of the lower extremities. The software predicts the extent of soft tissue damage as well as bone interaction, including fracture mode and ejected bone fragments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA354311

Entities

People

  • Amiya K. Chatterjee
  • George H. Burghart
  • Peter Loan
  • Robert D. Eisler

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Science
  • Databases
  • Differential Equations
  • Geometry
  • Health Services
  • Lower Extremity
  • Mathematical Models
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanics
  • Medical Personnel
  • Munitions
  • Musculoskeletal System
  • Penetrating Wounds
  • Projectiles
  • Stress Strain Relations
  • Virtual Reality

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Immunology and Pathology
  • ballistics.