New Atlas

U.S. soldiers wired to record blast effects

Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) have been a major hazard for Coalition and NATO forces in Afghanistan for over the past decade. The toll that they’ve taken in lives and equipment has been terrible ...
Medicine Buffalo

Air-Blast Effects on Structural Shapes

Keywords: Air blast loads. Structural shapes. Numerical analyses. Computational fluid dynamics. Peak reflected overpressure. Peak reflected impulses. Infinite widths ...
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Blast exposure monitoring tool reaches critical milestone

FORT DETRICK, Md. – The Blast Overpressure Tool, an application developed by the DOD Blast Injury Research Coordinating Office to help minimize Warfighters’ exposure to the shock waves created by the ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Protecting People and Buildings from Terrorism: Technology Transfer for Blast-effects Mitigation

One purpose of the workshop “Protecting People and Buildings from Bomb Damage” was to bring together representatives of the various stakeholder groups to identify their needs for information and ...
The National Interest

Small, Repeated Explosions Can Still Do Major Damage To Our Military

Here’s What You Need To Remember: What’s interesting here is the evidence that soldiers suffer from blast even when they are not direct victims of shell or bomb explosions. Just as aircraft mechanics ...
Medicine Buffalo

Air-Blast Effects on Civil Structures

Keywords: detonations, computational fluid dynamics, fireball, design charts, reflection coefficients, scaled impulse, Mach reflection, concrete erosion strain Abstract: The overarching goal of the ...
Gizmodo

Incredibly clear footage shows the blast effect of 1953 atomic bomb

Kaboom. And fireball. And ground shake. And shockwave. And boom. AtomCentral shows us some amazingly clear HD footage restored from 1953 of the Atomic Cannon test from Upshot-Knothole Grable. In the ...