For something commonly called a "dummy," the mannequins used in crash tests are surprisingly sophisticated and so specialized that they're not much use out of automotive safety labs. When the US Army ...

With the introduction of alternative energy sources into rail transportation, accompanying blast and fire testing is needed to ensure safe operations and resiliency against security threats while also ...

Mass timber building advocates are encouraged by the results of the world’s first blast tests on full-scale structures framed with the renewable construction material. The performance metrics and ...

An Arizona man who donated his mother's body to science in the hopes neurologists could shed new light about Alzheimer's disease made a startling discovery.Jim Stauffer donated his mother's body to ...

Blast tests on three existing two-story, single-bay cross-laminated timber (CLT) structures at Tyndall Air Force Base were successful, according to WoodWorks, a program working with the Wood Products ...

A prototype WIAMan, or blast-test dummy, that could help reduce harm to U.S. armed forces caused by explosions under their military vehicles Three Milwaukee institutions — Marquette University, the ...

An Arizona man says a body donation center where FBI agents reported finding buckets of human organs and a Frankenstein-like body sold his mother’s body to the U.S. Army for “blast testing.” Jim ...

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The Arizona body donation center where FBI agents found “a bucket of heads” and body parts sewn together “like Frankenstein” also sold a woman’s corpse to the US Army — where it was used for “blast ...

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Increasingly, explosive blast concerns are driving the design of sites, structures, façades and glazed openings for today’s commercial, institutional and industrial facilities to protect. Driven by ...

The BLAST test (Bron/Lyon Attention Stability Test) was developed at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (Inserm CNRS) to measure the ability of individuals to "stay on task", i.e. to selectively ...