Use this URL to cite or link to this record in EThOS: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.753703 |
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Title: | Development of a synthetic bone and tissue model to simulate overmatch military ballistic head injury | ||||||
Author: | Mahoney, Peter Francis |
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0000 0004 7426 7891
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Awarding Body: | Cranfield University | ||||||
Current Institution: | Cranfield University | ||||||
Date of Award: | 2018 | ||||||
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A synthetic bone and tissue head model was built using sequential experiments and tested against impacts with 7.62 x 39 mm MSC ammunition. The key experiment in this series was a forensic reconstruction of two military head injury gunshot wounds. One of the models produced a good representation of the incident. The other was less accurate but did produce a good representation of tangential gunshot wounds. Further work assessed the model against a contact gunshot injury with 5.56 x 45 mm ammunition and looked at the effects of intermediate glass and transparent thermoplastic targets on the wounds produced by 7.62 x 39 mm impacts. Strengths and weaknesses of the model are discussed and further work suggested.
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Supervisor: | Carr, D. J. ; Harrison, K. ; Critchley, R. | Sponsor: | Royal Centre for Defence Medicine | ||||
Qualification Name: | Thesis (Ph.D.) | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||||
EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.753703 | DOI: | Not available | ||||
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