Quantification of biomechanical tolerance is necessary for injury prediction and protection of
vehicular occupants. This study experimentally quantified lumbar spine axial tolerance …

Study Design. Literature review. Objective. The goal of this study was to provide a
comprehensive outline of spinal injuries that may transpire over the course of military service …

Study Design. A retrospective case series of UK victims of blast injury. Objective. To identify
the injury patterns in the spine caused by under-vehicle blast, and attempt to derive the …

The assessment methods of personnel damage under real shock environments are still an
issue. In this paper, a damage boundary for vibration-impact injury in a wide range of …

Explosion from an anti-tank landmine under a military vehicle, known as underbody blast
(UBB), may cause severe injury or even death for the occupants inside the vehicle. Severity …

Background Blast injury has been the most common cause of morbidity and mortality
encountered by UK forces during recent conflicts. Injuries sustained by blast are categorised …

The aim of the present work is to develop an magnetorheological (MR) seat suspension for
military vehicles to mitigate dynamic responses of seated occupant in both shock and …

Underbody blasts (UBB) from mines and improvised explosive devices in military combat
can cause debilitating spine injuries to vehicle mounted soldiers. Due to the exclusion of …

OBJECTIVES: to present demographic details, nature of injury, clinical characteristics of
patients admitted to Paraplegic Centre, Peshawar, Pakistan who sustained spinal cord injury …

Previous research has shown that injuries to the head and neck were prevalent in 73% of all
mounted fatalities of underbody blast. The mechanisms that cause such injuries to the …