Biomechanical model for pressure transmission into the lung, with application to blast injury and blunt thoracic impact.

Author(s)
Oeters, D.I. & Morfey, C.L.
Year
Abstract

The intrathoracic pressures produced by exposure to air or underwater blast waves of short duration are predicted using a simplified one- dimensional model. The theoretical model is then used to explore the protective effects of various added layers worn as jackets.

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Publication

Library number
B 29410 (In: B 29401) /84 / IRRD 826439
Source

In: Proceedings of the 1989 International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Impacts, Stockholm (Sweden), September 13- 14- 15, 1989, p.99- 110, 14 ref.

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