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Increasingly, explosive blast concerns are driving the design of sites, structures, façades and glazed openings for today’s commercial, institutional and industrial facilities to protect. Driven by ...

Blast overpressure will always be part of military training, but repeated, unmitigated exposure should not be the price warfighters, instructors, RSOs, and their families pay for readiness.

A new congressional measure could require that the military services assign blast safety officers to help enforce safety rules and teach troops about the health risks of blast overpressure caused by ...

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. -- Engineers from Watervliet Arsenal have designed a 105 mm low blast overpressure muzzle brake, or LBOP. It's the first large caliber muzzle brake designed specifically for an ...

Keywords: Blast-resistant designs. Explosive charges. Blast loads. Finite element (FE) analyses. LS-DYNA. AUTODYN. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Air3D. Fluid ...

Blast events subject the human body to rapid pressure waves and mechanical loading that can cause a spectrum of injuries, from skeletal fractures to visceral damage. Biomechanical assessment combines ...

The Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center’s Benet Laboratories at Watervliet Arsenal is developing a new 105mm low blast overpressure (LBOP) muzzle brake for the US Army’s M119 ...