Non-Auditory Effects of Complex Blast Waves on Personnel Inside an APC Attacked by Shaped Charge Warheads

摘要

By using a mathematical model of the human thorax and measured pressure-time histories inside an armored vehicle attacked by shaped charge warheads it has been shown that the computed intrathoracic pressures and chest wall velocities are twice as high in the back as in the front of the vehicle. This has been attributed to the linear dimensions of the inside of the compartment giving different resonance frequencies and consequently different response of the thorax to the complex blast wave load.