Dynamic monitoring of service members to quantify blast exposure levels during combat training using BlackBox Biometrics Blast Gauges: explosive breaching, shoulder-fired weapons, artillery, mortars, and 0.50 caliber guns
CONQUER is a pilot blast monitoring program that monitors, quantifies, and reports to military units the training-related blast overpressure exposure of their service members. Overpressure exposure data are collected using the BlackBox Biometrics (B3) Blast Gauge System (BGS, generation 7) sensors m...
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| author | Suthee Wiri Todd Massow Todd Massow James Reid James Reid Joshua Whitty Joshua Whitty Cyrus Dunbar Cyrus Dunbar Wallace Graves Wallace Graves Andrea Gonzales David Ortley Jasmyne Longwell Charles E. Needham Alex Ziegle Virginia Phan Fabio Leonessa Fabio Leonessa Josh L. Duckworth |
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| description | CONQUER is a pilot blast monitoring program that monitors, quantifies, and reports to military units the training-related blast overpressure exposure of their service members. Overpressure exposure data are collected using the BlackBox Biometrics (B3) Blast Gauge System (BGS, generation 7) sensors mounted on the body during training. To date, the CONQUER program has recorded 450,000 gauge triggers on monitored service members. The subset of data presented here has been collected from 202 service members undergoing training with explosive breaching charges, shoulder-fired weapons, artillery, mortars, and 0.50 caliber guns. Over 12,000 waveforms were recorded by the sensors worn by these subjects. A maximum peak overpressure of 90.3 kPa (13.1 psi) was recorded during shoulder-fired weapon training. The largest overpressure impulse (a measure of blast energy) was 82.0 kPa-ms (11.9 psi-ms) and it was recorded during explosive breaching with a large wall charge. Operators of 0.50 caliber machine guns have the lowest peak overpressure impulse (as low as 0.62 kPa-ms or 0.09 psi-ms) of the blast sources considered. The data provides information on the accumulation of blast overpressure on service members over an extended period of time. The cumulative peak overpressure, peak overpressure impulse, or timing between exposures is all available in the exposure data. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d49446cf08e646b5bfe52ac3cff3bba82023-05-25T04:27:00ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Neurology1664-22952023-05-011410.3389/fneur.2023.11756711175671Dynamic monitoring of service members to quantify blast exposure levels during combat training using BlackBox Biometrics Blast Gauges: explosive breaching, shoulder-fired weapons, artillery, mortars, and 0.50 caliber gunsSuthee Wiri0Todd Massow1Todd Massow2James Reid3James Reid4Joshua Whitty5Joshua Whitty6Cyrus Dunbar7Cyrus Dunbar8Wallace Graves9Wallace Graves10Andrea Gonzales11David Ortley12Jasmyne Longwell13Charles E. Needham14Alex Ziegle15Virginia Phan16Fabio Leonessa17Fabio Leonessa18Josh L. Duckworth19Applied Research Associates, Albuquerque, NM, United StatesNeurology Department, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United StatesHenry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., Bethesda, MD, United StatesNeurology Department, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United StatesHenry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., Bethesda, MD, United StatesNeurology Department, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United StatesHenry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., Bethesda, MD, United StatesNeurology Department, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United StatesHenry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., Bethesda, MD, United StatesNeurology Department, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United StatesHenry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., Bethesda, MD, United StatesApplied Research Associates, Albuquerque, NM, United StatesApplied Research Associates, Albuquerque, NM, United StatesApplied Research Associates, Albuquerque, NM, United StatesNeedham Consulting, Albuquerque, NM, United StatesApplied Research Associates, Albuquerque, NM, United StatesApplied Research Associates, Albuquerque, NM, United StatesNeurology Department, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United StatesHenry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., Bethesda, MD, United StatesNeurology Department, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United StatesCONQUER is a pilot blast monitoring program that monitors, quantifies, and reports to military units the training-related blast overpressure exposure of their service members. Overpressure exposure data are collected using the BlackBox Biometrics (B3) Blast Gauge System (BGS, generation 7) sensors mounted on the body during training. To date, the CONQUER program has recorded 450,000 gauge triggers on monitored service members. The subset of data presented here has been collected from 202 service members undergoing training with explosive breaching charges, shoulder-fired weapons, artillery, mortars, and 0.50 caliber guns. Over 12,000 waveforms were recorded by the sensors worn by these subjects. A maximum peak overpressure of 90.3 kPa (13.1 psi) was recorded during shoulder-fired weapon training. The largest overpressure impulse (a measure of blast energy) was 82.0 kPa-ms (11.9 psi-ms) and it was recorded during explosive breaching with a large wall charge. Operators of 0.50 caliber machine guns have the lowest peak overpressure impulse (as low as 0.62 kPa-ms or 0.09 psi-ms) of the blast sources considered. The data provides information on the accumulation of blast overpressure on service members over an extended period of time. The cumulative peak overpressure, peak overpressure impulse, or timing between exposures is all available in the exposure data.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2023.1175671/fullblast overpressureoperational monitoringmilitary trainingblast sensorbody mounted |
| spellingShingle | Suthee Wiri Todd Massow Todd Massow James Reid James Reid Joshua Whitty Joshua Whitty Cyrus Dunbar Cyrus Dunbar Wallace Graves Wallace Graves Andrea Gonzales David Ortley Jasmyne Longwell Charles E. Needham Alex Ziegle Virginia Phan Fabio Leonessa Fabio Leonessa Josh L. Duckworth Dynamic monitoring of service members to quantify blast exposure levels during combat training using BlackBox Biometrics Blast Gauges: explosive breaching, shoulder-fired weapons, artillery, mortars, and 0.50 caliber guns Frontiers in Neurology blast overpressure operational monitoring military training blast sensor body mounted |
| title | Dynamic monitoring of service members to quantify blast exposure levels during combat training using BlackBox Biometrics Blast Gauges: explosive breaching, shoulder-fired weapons, artillery, mortars, and 0.50 caliber guns |
| title_full | Dynamic monitoring of service members to quantify blast exposure levels during combat training using BlackBox Biometrics Blast Gauges: explosive breaching, shoulder-fired weapons, artillery, mortars, and 0.50 caliber guns |
| title_fullStr | Dynamic monitoring of service members to quantify blast exposure levels during combat training using BlackBox Biometrics Blast Gauges: explosive breaching, shoulder-fired weapons, artillery, mortars, and 0.50 caliber guns |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dynamic monitoring of service members to quantify blast exposure levels during combat training using BlackBox Biometrics Blast Gauges: explosive breaching, shoulder-fired weapons, artillery, mortars, and 0.50 caliber guns |
| title_short | Dynamic monitoring of service members to quantify blast exposure levels during combat training using BlackBox Biometrics Blast Gauges: explosive breaching, shoulder-fired weapons, artillery, mortars, and 0.50 caliber guns |
| title_sort | dynamic monitoring of service members to quantify blast exposure levels during combat training using blackbox biometrics blast gauges explosive breaching shoulder fired weapons artillery mortars and 0 50 caliber guns |
| topic | blast overpressure operational monitoring military training blast sensor body mounted |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2023.1175671/full |
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