Fig. 1. Simulation setting
Fig. 2. Simulation flow chart
Fig. 3. Pressure-time history of an ideal blast
Fig. 4. Pressure-time history generated from BlastX
Fig. 5. A chest wall velocity profile under a blast
Fig. 6. Chest wall velocities
Fig. 7. Lethal areas
Fig. 8. Probabilities of personal target lethality
Fig. 9. Minimum required charge weights required for 100% lethality for a room with a square base
Fig. 10. Minimum charge density required for 100% lethality for a room with a square base
Fig. 11. Predictions of the two models on the minimum charge weights required for 100% lethality
Table 1. Simulation parameters
Table 2. Types of blast injury
Table 3. Parameters used in Axelsson model for a 70kg human
Table 4. Injury level, ASII, and chest wall velocity
Table 5. RMS errors for the two models
Table 6. Comparisons on predictions of the two models
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