Skull Flexure from Blast Waves: A Mechanism for Brain Injury with Implications for Helmet Design

Details Skull Flexure from Blast Waves: A Mechanism for Brain Injury with Implications for Helmet Design Skull Flexure from Blast Waves: A Mechanism for Brain Injury with Implications for Helmet Design

2008-09-19

arxiv.org/abs/0809.3468v4

Physics

Medical Physics

version in press, Physical Review Letters; 17 pages, 5 figures (includes supplementary material)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.108702

Traumatic brain injury [TBI] has become a signature injury of current military conflicts, with debilitating, costly, and long-lasting effects. Although mechanisms by which head impacts cause TBI have been well-researched, the mechanisms by which blasts cause TBI are not understood. From numerical hydrodynamic simulations, we have discovered that non-lethal blasts can induce sufficient skull flexure to generate potentially damaging loads in the brain, even without a head impact. The possibility that this mechanism may contribute to TBI has implications for injury diagnosis and armor design.

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