Imperial College London
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Dr William G Proud

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Reader in Shock Physics
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 5898w.proud

 
 
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727Blackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Nguyen:2020:10.1016/j.jmbbm.2019.103525,
author = {Nguyen, TT and Carpanen, D and Stinner, D and Rankin, I and Ramasamy, A and Breeze, J and Proud, W and Clasper, J and Masouros, S},
doi = {10.1016/j.jmbbm.2019.103525},
journal = {Journal of The Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials},
title = {The risk of fracture to the tibia from a fragment simulating projectile},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2019.103525},
volume = {102},
year = {2020}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Penetrating injuries due to fragments energised by an explosive event are life threatening and are associated with poor clinical and functional outcomes. The tibia is the long bone most affected in survivors of explosive events, yet the risk of penetrating injury to it has not been quantified. In this study, an injury-risk assessment of penetrating injury to the tibia was conducted using a gas-gun system with a 0.78-g cylindrical fragment simulating projectile. An ovine tibia model was used to generate the injury-risk curves and human cadaveric tests were conducted to validate and scale the results of the ovine model. The impact velocity at 50% risk (±95% confidence intervals) for EF1+, EF2+, EF3+, and EF4+ fractures to the human tibia – using the modified Winquist-Hansen classification – was 271 ± 30, 363 ± 46, 459 ± 102, and 936 ± 182 m/s, respectively. The scaling factor for the impact velocity from cadaveric ovine to human was 2.5. These findings define the protection thresholds to improve the injury outcomes for fragment penetrating injury to the tibia.
AU  - Nguyen,TT
AU  - Carpanen,D
AU  - Stinner,D
AU  - Rankin,I
AU  - Ramasamy,A
AU  - Breeze,J
AU  - Proud,W
AU  - Clasper,J
AU  - Masouros,S
DO  - 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2019.103525
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 1751-6161
TI  - The risk of fracture to the tibia from a fragment simulating projectile
T2  - Journal of The Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2019.103525
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/75132
VL  - 102
ER  -
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