Shotguns are usually used to fire multiple pellets; however, they are capable of firing a single projectile in the form of a slug. Although rare, shotgun slug injuries are severe, producing wounds comparable to those inflicted by high-velocity weapons with the potential for even more tissue destruction because of the slug's size and mass. We report the first survivor of a close range shotgun sl...

Injuries by handcrafted firearms are uncommon, and those by handcrafted shotguns are very rare. We present an unusual case of suicide using a handcrafted shotgun and slug. A 73-year-old male, who was a glass-grinding artisan, was found dead at a workshop on the premises of his residence. Autopsy showed a contact shotgun wound to the forehead, which perforated the cranium and caused extensive da...

Booming technological advances and turbulent military reforms have promoted the continuous advancement of weapons equipment. High-power microwave (HPM) changed damage modes traditional guns, missiles other kinetic energy weapons, as well having huge advantage “changing rules game.” The study exterior ballistics high-power has theoretical support for design development verification performance i...

The goal of the article is to present a novel Multimedia Firearms Training System. The system was developed in order to compensate for major problems of existing shooting training systems. The designed and implemented solution can be characterized by five major advantages: algorithm for automatic geometric calibration, algorithm of photometric recalibration, firearms hit point detection using t...

Niranjan Desai did his PhD from the University of Louisville and is an Assistant Professor in the department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University Northwest. His areas of interest include structural health monitoring and nonlinear dynamic analysis. Thomas Pfauth earned a BS degree in mechanical engineering with a minor in electrical engineering in May 2017. Areas of interest ...

This poster describes a real-time musculoskeletal model created for the purpose of simulating localized injuries on animated 3D human characters. The baseline experiment will include projectile injuries that are compared and validated against experimental data from the science of ballistics. The research will also include an injury assessment model suitable for motion editing purposes that look...