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@article{Yu:2019:10.1002/cnm.3258,
author = {Yu, X and Ghajari, M},
doi = {10.1002/cnm.3258},
journal = {International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering},
pages = {1--15},
title = {An assessment of blast modelling techniques for injury biomechanics research},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cnm.3258},
volume = {35},
year = {2019}
}
TY - JOUR
AB - Blast-induced Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) has been affecting combatants and civilians. The blast pressure wave is thought to have a significant contribution to blast related TBI. Due to the limitations and difficulties of conducting blast tests on surrogates, computational modelling has been used as a key method for exploring this field. However, the blast wave modelling methods reported in current literature have drawbacks. They either cannot generate the desirable blast pressure wave history, or they are unable to accurately simulate the blast wave/structure interaction. In addition, boundary conditions, which can have significant effects on model predictions, have not been described adequately. Here, we critically assess the commonly used methods for simulating blast wave propagation in air (open-field blast) and its interaction with the human body. We investigate the predicted blast wave time history, blast wave transmission and the effects of various boundary conditions in 3 dimensional (3D) models of blast prediction. We propose a suitable meshing topology, which enables accurate prediction of blast wave propagation and interaction with the human head and significantly decreases the computational cost in 3D simulations. Finally, we predict strain and strain rate in the human brain during blast wave exposure and show the influence of the blast wave modelling methods on the brain response. The findings presented here can serve as guidelines for accurately modelling blast wave generation and interaction with the human body for injury biomechanics studies and design of prevention systems.
AU - Yu,X
AU - Ghajari,M
DO - 10.1002/cnm.3258
EP - 15
PY - 2019///
SN - 1069-8299
SP - 1
TI - An assessment of blast modelling techniques for injury biomechanics research
T2 - International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cnm.3258
UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31518061
UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cnm.3258
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/73599
VL - 35
ER -
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