Personnel safety with pressurized gas systems

Cadwallader, L.C.; Zhao, Haihua

doi:10.1002/prs.11850

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“…Partial-thickness skin wounds commonly result from accelerated debris clouds associated with the increasing threat of blast weaponry such as mortar shelling and improvised explosive devices 1 . Civil and industrial accidents with explosives or compressed gas can also be causes 2 – 6 .…”

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Characterization and modeling of partial-thickness cutaneous injury from debris-simulating kinetic projectiles

Berkey

Elsafty²,

Riggs³

et al. 2022

Commun Eng

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Partial-thickness cutaneous injuries distributed over exposed body locations, such as the face and extremities, pose a significant risk of infection, function loss, and extensive scarring. These injuries commonly result from impact of kinetic debris from industrial accidents or blast weaponry such as improvised explosive devices. However, the quantitative connections between partial-thickness injuries and debris attributes (kinetic energy, shape, orientation, etc.) remain unknown, with little means to predict damage processes or design protection. Here we quantitatively characterize damage in near-live human skin after impact by debris-simulating kinetic projectiles at differing impact angles and energies. Impact events are monitored using high-speed and quantitative imaging to visualize skin injuries. These findings are utilized to develop a highly predictive, dynamic computational skin-injury model. Results provide quantitative insights revealing how the dermal-epidermal junction controls more severe wound processes. Findings can illuminate expected wound severity and morbidity risks to inform clinical treatment, and assess effectiveness of emerging personal protective equipment.

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Characterization and modeling of partial-thickness cutaneous injury from debris-simulating kinetic projectiles

Berkey

Elsafty²,

Riggs³

et al. 2022

Commun Eng

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Penetration Thresholds of Porcine Limbs for Low Sectional Density Projectiles in High-Rate Impact

LeSueur,

Koser,

Hampton

et al. 2024

Military Medicine

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Introduction With similar prevalence to injuries from fires, stings, and natural disasters, soft tissue injuries may occur from fireworks, industrial accidents, or other explosives. Surgeons are less familiar with treating high-velocity penetration from small debris, which may increase the chance of infection and subsequent fatality. Penetration risk curves have been developed to predict V50, the velocity with 50% probability of penetration, for various sized projectiles. However, there has been limited research using nonmetallic materials to achieve lower density projectiles less than 1 g cm−2, such as sand or rocks. Material and Methods To emulate the size and density of these energized particles, 14 ball bearings of stainless steel, silicon nitride, or Delrin acetal plastic ranging from 1.59 mm (1/16”) to 9.53 mm (3/8”) with sectional densities between 0.3 g cm−2 and 5 g cm−2 were launched toward porcine legs at a range of velocities to determine the penetration thresholds. High-speed videography was captured laterally at 40 kHz and impact velocity was captured using a physics-based tracking software. A generalized linear model with repeated measures and a logit link function was used to predict probability of penetration for each projectile. A total of 600 impacts were conducted to achieve at least 15 penetrating impacts for each projectile over a range of velocities. Results Higher impact velocities were required to penetrate the skin as sectional density of the projectile decreased, and the relationship between velocity and sectional density exhibited an exponential relationship (V50, $ = 184.6*S{D^{ - 0.385}}$, R2 = 0.95) with substantial change for nonlinearity in sectional densities ranging from 0.3 g cm−2 to 1 g cm−2. Compared to previous studies, the empirical relationship was consistent in the linear region (2-5 g cm−2), and novel experimentation filled in the gaps for sectional densities less than 1 g cm−2, which expressed more nonlinearity than previously estimated. For low-density projectiles with diameters of 1.59 (1/16”) or 3.18 (1/8”), 32 impacts were lodged into the epidermis but did not penetrate through the dermis; however, penetration was defined as displacement into or through the dermis. Conclusions These experimental results may be used to develop and validate finite element simulations of low-density projectile impacts to address complex, multivariate loading conditions for the development of protective clothing to reduce wounding and subsequent infection rates.

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Research of the Temperature Field in the System of Multilayer Cylindrical Solid Bodies Under Fire Conditions

Tatsii

Pazen

Shypot

2021

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Introduction. The current urgent task is to find the temperature field distribution in cylindrical structures such as "solid cylinder inside a multilayer cylindrical shell". A characteristic feature of such structures is different mechanical and thermophysical characteristics of the layers combination, which makes them more perfect. However, this approach causes significant difficulties in developing analytical methods for their study. Therefore, new research methods development for multilayer, in particular, cylindrical structures is an urgent task today.Purpose. Direct method is used to study the heat transfer processes in the system "one-piece cylinder inside a multilayer cylindrical shell".Methods. To solve the initial parallel, the auxiliary problem of determining the distribution of a nonstationary temperature field in a multilayer hollow cylindrical structure with a "removed" cylinder of a sufficiently small radius is set. The solution of the auxiliary problem is realized by applying the method of reduction using the concept of quasi-derivatives. The Fourier schemeis used by using a modified method of eigenfunctions.Results. To find the solution to the problem, we used the idea of a boundary transition by directing the radius of the removedcylinder to zero. It is established that in this approach, all eigenfunctions of the corresponding problem have no singularities atzero, which means that the solutions of the original problem are limited in the whole structure. To illustrate the proposed method,a model example of finding the temperature field distribution in a four-layer column of circular cross-section (tubular concretecolumn) under the influence of the standard temperature of the fire. The results of the calculations are presented in the form of athree-dimensional graph of temperature changes depending on time and spatial coordinates.Conclusions. A direct method was used to solve the initial problem, using the idea of a boundary transition for the first time.In the general formulation (the function of changing the temperature of the environment is considered arbitrary, no restrictionsare imposed on the thickness of the shell and the number of layers) such a problem is solved for the first time.The structure of the obtained explicit exact formulas allows creating an algorithm for calculating the temperature field inthe form of automated programs, where it is enough to enter the initial data. Note that such algorithms include: a) calculating theroots of the characteristic equation; b) multiplication of a finite number of known matrices; c) calculation of definite integrals; d)summation of the required number of members of the series to obtain a given accuracy of the calculation.

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Personnel safety with pressurized gas systems

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References 18 publications

Characterization and modeling of partial-thickness cutaneous injury from debris-simulating kinetic projectiles

Characterization and modeling of partial-thickness cutaneous injury from debris-simulating kinetic projectiles

Penetration Thresholds of Porcine Limbs for Low Sectional Density Projectiles in High-Rate Impact

Research of the Temperature Field in the System of Multilayer Cylindrical Solid Bodies Under Fire Conditions

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