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During the impact of a body on a plate, flexural waves are set which travel circularly outwards from the point of impact. These waves can be used to determine the properties of the impacting body. For accurate measurements, ...
Knowledge of material behaviour under impact is of key importance to understand ballistic impact events on tissue. Bone- with it’s complex underlying microstructure- is no exception; the microstructural network in bone is ...
Errickson, David; Fawcett, H.; Thompson, T. J. U.; Campbell, A.(Springer, 2019-12-06)
Evidence presented within a courtroom should be clear so that the members of the jury can understand it. The presentation of distressing images, such as human remains, can have a negative effect on the jury since photographic ...
Goff, Michael J.; Hazell, Paul J.; Appleby-Thomas, Gareth J.; Wood, David C.; Stennett, Christopher(Elsevier, 2015-03-06)
Kel-F 81 (PCTFE/Polychlorotrifluoroethylene) polymer targets were subjected to ramp loadings generated by a ceramic flyer accelerated into the targets by a gas gun in the plate impact configuration. This approach used a ...
Nyombi, Antony; Williams, Mike; Wessling, Roland(Taylor and Francis, 2018-08-15)
Ash (Fraxinus) wood sawdust pyrolysis under nitrogen was conducted using 2, 5, 10, 15, and 20°C/min heating rates. Friedman and Starink methods were used for kinetic analysis while y(α) master plots were used for pyrolysis ...
This paper re‐analyses a considerable corpus of glass from the Late Bronze Age site of Nuzi, found near Kirkuk in Iraq. SEM–WDS and Sr and Nd isotopic analysis were applied, in addition to cataloguing the glass. The work ...
We propose an architecture appropriate for future Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) active homing seeker missiles with Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) capabilities. Our proposal enhances military targeting performance ...
Appleby-Thomas, Gareth J.; Fitzmaurice, Brianna; Hameed, Amer; Painter, Jonathan; Gibson, Michael C.; Wood, David C.; Hazael, Rachael; Hazell, Paul J.(Elsevier, 2017-10-10)
Tissue analogues employed for ballistic purposes are often monolithic in nature, e.g. ballistic gelatin and soap, etc. However, such constructs are not representative of real-world biological systems. Further, ethical ...
An experimental study was conducted on the effectiveness of sawtooth spoilers at suppressing acoustic tones within a rectangular cavity with a length-to-depth ratio of five and a width-to-depth ratio of two, operating at ...
Phillips, Nathan; Knowles, Kevin; Bomphrey, Richard J.(IOP, 2015-10-12)
Insect wing shapes are diverse and a renowned source of inspiration for the new generation of autonomous flapping vehicles, yet the aerodynamic consequences of varying geometry is not well understood. One of the most ...
The nature of identity has changed dramatically in recent years and has grown in complexity. Identities are defined in multiple domains: biological and psychological elements strongly contribute, but biographical and cyber ...
Munoz, Andre; Vella, Anna; Healy, Matthew J. F.; Lane, David W.(2018-08-22)
Coded masks (CM) often lack a self-supporting structure that is difficult to manufacture without recourse to drilled holes in place of ideal square apertures, degrading imaging properties. An alternative approach is presented ...
Vella, Anna; Munoz, Andre A. M.; Healy, Matthew J. F.; Lane, David W.; Lockley, David(Elsevier, 2018-07-23)
The PENELOPE Monte Carlo simulation code was used to evaluate pinhole mask parameters for X-ray backscatter imaging in a security application. This work makes four major contributions: it describes a convenient efficient ...
The major growth in gaming over the last five to ten years has been through the expansion in online gaming, with the most frequent gamers now playing more games online than with others in person. The increase in cooperative ...
The quest for new sensing phenomena continues because detecting, discriminating, identifying, measuring and monitoring nuclear materials and their radiation from greater range, at lower concentrations, and in a more timely ...
This study investigated the effect of temperature & air flow on CO evolved from barbecue charcoal. The amounts of CO were analysed using FTIR and Electrochemical sensors and the colours of charcoal at different temperatures ...
Coloured enamels from the materials used in Modernist workshops from Barcelona were produced and compared to those found in the buildings to explore the reason for the reduced stability of the blue and green enamels.
They ...
Dillis, Sarah; Van Ham-Meert, Alicia; Leeming, Peter; Shortland, Andrew J.; Gobejishvili, Gela; Abramishvili, Mikheil; Degryse, Patrick(Taylor & Francis, 2019-11-13)
Sb was frequently used as a raw material, both in ancient glass-making (as an opacifier and decolouriser) and metallurgy (either as an alloying element or as a pure metal). Despite this ubiquity, antimony production has ...
This study explores the application of the FBI’s organised-disorganised classification to North-American and European male serial killers. Adopting the same method as Taylor, Lambeth, Green, Bone and Cahillane’s 2012 study, ...
Very little is known about the interactions of blood and fabric and how bloodstains on fabric are formed. Whereas the blood stain size for non-absorbent surfaces depends on impact velocity, previous work has suggested that ...