Soil provides multiple important functions, such as provision of food and raw materials, a platform for urban development and human wellbeing and a filtering and transforming media for water, nutrients, and carbon. All ...

The effect of fire on military aircraft is a large factor in assessing their survivability and understanding this is a complex and challenging task, which requires specialist research. Quantifying the thermomechanical ...

The computational demands of modelling large numbers of coupled electrons and ions have long been considered insurmountable, despite advances and refinements in density functional theory (DFT) calculations. However, a ...

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When shielded from the fireball and fragmentation of an explosion, the blastwave can still cause multiple injuries, with increasing prevalence of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) noticed amongst survivors. Relatively low peak ...

IMX-104 is an Insensitive High Explosive containing a mixture of 3-Nitro-1,2,4-triazol-5-one (NTO), 2,4- dinitroanisole (DNAN) and cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (RDX). Due to its novelty, little is known about its potential ...

Forensic gait analysis is generally defined as the analysis of walking features of individuals from video footage, to assist in criminal investigations. Although an attractive approach to detecting suspects since data can ...

The need of insensitive munition has driven the replacement of traditional explosives by Insensitive High Explosives (IHE), less sensitive to external stimuli. This new generation contains compounds such as 2,4-dinitroanisole ...

There is currently significant interest in the development of additive manufacturing (AM) techniques suitable for various energetic materials, such as explosives and propellants. One potential approach in this application ...

The controlled drug market in the UK alone is worth £9.4 billion a year (£19 billion a year cost to society) and is used to finance other crimes, including terrorism with enormous social-economical costs. The threat continues ...