Twelve years ago, Stefan Duma, a Virginia Tech engineering professor, left a U.S. military conference in Puerto Rico with an idea to better understand and treat the head injuries sustained by college ...
FORT BELVOIR, Va. (Army News Service, Sept. 1, 2009) -- For the past year, almost 7,000 sensors mounted on helmets in Iraq and Afghanistan have been collecting data on blast trauma from improvised ...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14, 2008 - While it still may be years away, military medical officials hope to one day place a sensor on every troop that would measure a blast's impact and alert a combat medic to ...
A team of scientists from Brigham Young University (BYU), Utah, has developed a smartfoam-based sensor system capable of detecting the severity of a collision in real time. When applied to American ...