Ocular biomechanics due to ground blast reinforcement.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objective

Bomb blast injuries exerts a shearing force on the air-tissue interfaces, causing devastating ocular injury from the blast wave. Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are usually placed at different heights from the ground to induce more severe injury through ground blast reinforcement (GBR). However, there is still a lack of knowledge of the role of GBR and IED height from the ground on ocular biomechanics, and how they can affect the intraocular pressure (IOP) in the eye. This study aimed to estimate the IOP due to frontal IED explosion at different heights from the ground using a fluid-structure interaction model with and without GBR effects.

Methods

A 2 kg IED was placed within 5 m of the victim at 5 different heights from the ground, including 0,

SUBMITTER: Karimi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8577623 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature