The experience of recent military missions clearly shows the importance protecting vehicles and people they carry from mines IEDs. This protection can be achieved in many ways, using both active passive solutions. One most popular solutions is energy deflectors, which, thanks to their appropriately selected shape, dissipate detonation an explosive charge, thus reducing blast wave loading on pro...

The dynamic load in the soil directly leads to damage of underground structures upon explosions. In this study, a method predict blast on structure surface based neural network was developed study distribution under close-in detonation. First, taking utility tunnel as experimental structure, 52 groups field tests were conducted mechanism, and data samples obtained. Second, key influencing param...

Blast waves generated by improvised explosive devices (IEDs) cause traumatic brain injury (TBI) in soldiers and civilians. In vivo animal models that use shock tubes are extensively used in laboratories to simulate field conditions, to identify mechanisms of injury, and to develop injury thresholds. In this article, we place rats in different locations along the length of the shock tube (i.e., ...

The Clean Coal Technology (CCT) Demonstration Program is a government and industry co-funded effort to demonstrate a new generation of innovative coal utilization processes in a series of " showcase " facilities built across the country. These projects are carried out on a sufficiently large scale to prove commercial worthiness and generate data for design, construction, operation, and technica...

In this paper, we study the consequences of an improvised nuclear detonation (IND) to the sub-transmission and distribution systems in Washington D.C. in the Eastern Interconnection (EI). We briefly discuss the geographical location of the blast and the interconnection of the power utility serving this area, with the neighboring power utilities. Analysis of the grid with respect to steady state...