Evaluation of dynamic response characteristics of the MiL-Lx leg compared to the Thor-Lx leg

Abstract

Anti-vehicular (AV) landmines and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) are utilized to disable and destroy vehicles and to injure and kill the occupants. They present not only a threat to vehicle occupants during times of conflict, but their humanitarian impact extends into the future. The lower extremity is still the predominantly injured body region following an AV mine blast. Shallow buried mines detonations occurring under the vehicle transmit high amplitude and short duration axial loads onto the foot-ankle-tibia region of the occupant causing injuries to the lower leg.