The Hybrid III 50th percentile male anthropomorphic test device is used to study human effects experienced within a vehicle during a landmine explosion. The system is used to test various parameters of lower limb surrogates. These parameters may affect the forces recorded and the ability of the armoured vehicles to 'pass' or 'fail' during certification tests.
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The LDERI focuses on research, design, development, modelling, simulation, testing, measurement and evaluations in detonics, ballistics, protection and operator support systems.
The majority of explosive landwards work is performed at the CSIR’s detonics, ballistics and explosive laboratory, situated at Paardefontein outside Pretoria. It offers specialised services in the R&D cycle – from research to industrialisation in the fields of specialist vehicles, landmine and ballistic protected vehicles, specialist soldier equipment, bomb disposal and borderline control technologies.
Specific skills include the protection against mine and other explosive threat events, explosive ordnance and improvised explosive devices disposal, mine clearance, vehicle mobility, security, shaped charge/self-forming fragments warhead technologies, ballistic protection, soldier systems, human response (blunt trauma, explosive event and terminal ballistics), autonomous intelligent systems, electromagnetic pulse and vehicle landmine protection validation and certification testing in accordance with RSA-MIL-STD 37.
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Landwards science
Flyers:
Camouflage
Detonic, ballistic and explosive laboratory
Landwards sciences: test, measurement and evaluation capabilities
Landwards research areas
Posters:
Blast Characterisation
Blast Enhanced Research
Camouflage: Investigation for Improved Camouflage Colours and Patterns for the SANDF camouflage Uniform
Computational Modelling of Short Time Duration Events
Explosive Ordnance Disposal_Vastrap
Explosively formed penetrator and Shaped Charge Research
Explosive Remnants of War Threat Levels
Human Response
Improvised Explosive Device Disposal
Integrated Mortar Advance Digital Targeting Systems
Landwards Sciences Test Measurement and Evaluation
Mobile intelligent autonomous systems in Defence – A Global Perspective
Protected Vehicle R&D by Mechem_CSIR
SAPS Technology Research and Support
Soldier Systems_Future Warrior
The Re-Commissioning of the Scientifically Instrumented Impulse Measuring Apparatus
Validation and Engineering Tests
Vehicle Landmine Protection Blast Impact and Vehicle Crew Survivability
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