Pole side impact crash tests are in use in regulatory and consumer programs around the world. There is some diversity in the test methods that are applied, including the suitability of available side impact dummies for use in these tests. For the WorldSID 50 percentile adult male dummy, much theoretical discussion has focussed on the likely rib response, including the direction of this response...

I a police officer for a major metropolitan city in the United States. On December 8, 2015, I was critically injured in the line of duty. After several major surgeries and spending several weeks in the hospital, I was introduced to a particular article in the Journal titled, ‘‘Improving survival from active shooter events: the Hartford Consensus.’’ I quickly realized that my traumatic event rel...

A circuit model is proposed in this paper for calculating the transient potential rise on the wind turbine struck by lightning. The model integrates the blade, sliding contact site, and tower and grounding system of the wind turbine into an equivalent circuit. The lightning current path from the attachment point to the ground can be fully described by the equivalent circuit. The transient poten...