Hearing damage is one of most prevalent injuries in military personnel and civilians
exposed to a blast. However, the mechanism of how the blast overpressure interacts with the
tympanic membrane (TM) and impairs the peripheral auditory system still remains unclear. A
3D finite element (FE) model of the human ear has been developed to predict the blast
overpressure transmission through the ear (Leckness et al., 2018), but the model needs to
be further validated in TM response to blast pressure. This paper reports the first-ever …