#Testing #HighRate #Blast #BlastMitigation #Defence

Our client from the defence industry approached us to assist in a series of real scale tests to evaluate a novel active blast protection system to be incorporated in vehicles and counteract antivehicular attacks due to landmines.

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Using our testing equipment, including a moveable high-rate data acquisition system and several high rate sensors, we placed accelerometers and LVDTs on the floor of the vehicle and used to record the acceleration, velocity, and displacement of the vehicle which was exposed to a realistic blast loading scenario at Radnor Range with and without the client's protective mechanism. We also correctly positioned and instrumented an Anthropometric Testing Device.

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Our findings from the analysis of the recorded data provided evidence that the counteracting system reduced the impact of the blast to non-injurious levels.