[HTML][HTML] Ballistic helmets: Recent advances in materials, protection mechanisms, performance, and head injury mitigation

Y Li, H Fan, XL Gao - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Combat helmets provide protection against ballistic threats and blunt impact forces, and
wearing them has greatly reduced head injuries and saved lives of many soldiers. With the …

[HTML][HTML] Study on craniocerebral dynamics response and helmet protective performance under the blast waves

X Huang, L Chang, H Zhao, Z Cai - Materials & Design, 2022 - Elsevier
Blast traumatic brain injury (BTBI) is the major type of injury, existing helmets are mainly
designed to resist bullets and fragments, so it is necessary to study the explosion-proof …

Induction of oxidative and nitrosative damage leads to cerebrovascular inflammation in an animal model of mild traumatic brain injury induced by primary blast

PM Abdul-Muneer, H Schuetz, F Wang… - Free Radical Biology …, 2013 - Elsevier
We investigate the hypothesis that oxidative damage of the cerebral vascular barrier
interface (the blood–brain barrier, BBB) causes the development of mild traumatic brain …

Artificial skin with varying biomechanical properties

G Singh, V Gupta, A Chanda - Materials Today: Proceedings, 2022 - Elsevier
Simulants, which precisely mimic human skin's mechanical properties, are valuable for the
study of the biomechanics of skin implants and prosthetics under static and dynamic loading …

A three-dimensional computational human head model that captures live human brain dynamics

S Ganpule, NP Daphalapurkar, KT Ramesh… - Journal of …, 2017 - liebertpub.com
Diffuse axonal injury (DAI) is a debilitating consequence of traumatic brain injury (TBI)
attributed to abnormal stretching of axons caused by blunt head trauma or acceleration of …

White matter compromise in veterans exposed to primary blast forces

KH Taber, RA Hurley, CC Haswell… - The Journal of Head …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Objective: Use diffusion tensor imaging to investigate white matter alterations associated
with blast exposure with or without acute symptoms of traumatic brain injury (TBI) …

[PDF][PDF] 爆炸冲击波作用下颅脑损伤机理的数值模拟研究

栗志杰, 由小川, 柳占立, 杜智博, 张仡, 杨策… - … AND SHOCK WAVES, 2020 - bzycj.cn
爆炸引起的颅脑损伤已经成为现代战场单兵的主要致伤形式, 而相关的致伤机理尚未完全阐明.
本文中, 针对头部在爆炸冲击波作用下的动态响应及相关致伤机理进行了数值模拟研究. 首先 …

Blast overpressure induces shear-related injuries in the brain of rats exposed to a mild traumatic brain injury

MAG Sosa, R De Gasperi, AJ Paulino… - Acta neuropathologica …, 2013 - Springer
Background Blast-related traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been a significant cause of injury
in the military operations of Iraq and Afghanistan, affecting as many as 10-20% of returning …

A critical review of experimental analyses performed on animals, post-mortem human subjects, and substitutes to explore primary blast-induced traumatic brain …

N Elster, J Boutillier, P Magnan, P Naz… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Although blast-induced Traumatic Brain Injury (bTBI) has become a signature wound of
conflict, its cause is not yet fully understood. Regarding primary blast injuries, ie, those …

[HTML][HTML] Blast injuries and blast-induced neurotrauma: overview of pathophysiology and experimental knowledge models and findings

I Cernak - 2015 - europepmc.org
Explosions are physical phenomena that result in the sudden release of energy; they may
be chemical, nuclear, or mechanical. This process results in a near-instantaneous pressure …