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REPORT DATE
01-12-2006
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PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT NUMBER
ATK Mission ResearchLaguna Hills, CA 92653-1327
SPONSORING / MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 10. SPONSOR/MONITOR'S ACRONYM(S)
U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Fort Detrick, Maryland 21702-5012
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ABSTRACTATKMissionResearchwassponsoredbyDARPA'sVirtualSoldierprogramtoanalyticallysimulateresidualwoundtractsandtissuedyna micsassociatedwithasurvivablewoundfromanexplosivelydrivenfragmentpenetratingtheleftventricularwallofthehumanheart.
LIST OF FIGURESFIGURE 1. Models for three fragment categories………………………………………… 9 FIGURE 2. 30 Caliber "Wedge Projectile" used in Task 3 Ballistic Experiments………. 10 FIGURE 3. Penetration Depth and Retardation forces vs. Velocity……………………… 11 FIGURE 4. Correlation between analytical predictions and ballistic test data for three different diameter spheres shot into 20% ordnance gelatin …………. 14 FIGURE 5. Schematic of Loading on a Flat Fragment …………………………………… 15 FIGURE 6. Schematic and Loading on a Cut Cylinder …………………………………… 15 The Mission Research effort consisted of three related tasks. In the first task entitled Analytical Simulation of Projectile Trajectory, Mission Research divided up fragments into three geometric categories -platelet, "chunky" fragment, and slender high aspect ratio projectile -with different governing parameters. For each fragment geometry, algorithms were developed that describe interaction of the fragment with human tissue and resulting projectile kinematics through different tissue layers of the human left ventricular wall. Prof. Andrew McCulloch, Ph.D. (University of California, San Diego -UCSD) and his team assisted Mission Research in executing the UCSD Continuity code to develop quasistatic constitutive models for the various layers of tissue through the left ventricular wall. From these qu...