During an Under Body Blast (UBB), the seated occupants are significantly accelerated, primarily through the floor and seats, which may lead to severe injuries and fatalities. Numerous studies have captured the injury severity and lethality of mounted victims due to an UBB. Studying the mechanisms of these injuries are expensive and inimitable with experimental blasts, as each full-scale blast experiment have too many variables. The development of a numerical model could reduce costs and limit variables to better define mechanism of injury.
Reference:
Schutte, Z. et al. 2018. Simulation of a capsule subjected to an under body blast. South African Institution of Mechanical Engineering (SAIMECHE) Postgraduate Conference on Mechanical, Manufacturing, Materials and Biomedical Engineering, Cape Town, 9 November 2018
Schutte, Z., Pandelani, T. A., Snyman, I., & Langdon, G. (2018). Simulation of a capsule subjected to an under body blast. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11462
Schutte, Zelldra, Thanyani A Pandelani, I Snyman, and GS Langdon. "Simulation of a capsule subjected to an under body blast." (2018): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11462
Schutte Z, Pandelani TA, Snyman I, Langdon G, Simulation of a capsule subjected to an under body blast; 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11462 .
Paper presented at the South African Institution of Mechanical Engineering (SAIMECHE) Postgraduate Conference on Mechanical, Manufacturing, Materials and Biomedical Engineering, Cape Town, 9 November 2018
