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  • 标题:Risk of Hearing Loss Injury Caused by Multiple Flash Bangs on a Crowd
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  • 作者:Hongyun Wang ; Wesley A. Burgei ; Hong Zhou
  • 期刊名称:American Journal of Operations Research
  • 印刷版ISSN:2160-8830
  • 电子版ISSN:2160-8849
  • 出版年度:2018
  • 卷号:8
  • 期号:4
  • 页码:239-265
  • DOI:10.4236/ajor.2018.84014
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:Scientific Research Pub
  • 摘要:A flash bang is a non-lethal explosive device that delivers intensely loud bangs and bright lights to suppress potentially dangerous targets. It is usually used in crowd control, hostage rescue and numerous other missions. We construct a model for assessing quantitatively the risk of hearing loss injury caused by multiple flash bangs. The model provides a computational framework for incorporating the effects of the key factors defining the situation and for testing various sub-models for these factors. The proposed model includes 1) uncertainty in the burst point of flash bang mortar, 2) randomness in the dispersion of multiple submunitions after the flash bang mortar burst, 3) decay of acoustic impulse from a single submunition to an individual subject along the ground surface, 4) the effective combined sound exposure level on an individual subject caused by multiple submunitions at various distances from the subject, and 5) randomness in the spatial distribution of subjects in the crowd. With the mathematical model formulated, we seek to characterize the overall effect of flash bang mortar in the form of an effective injury area. We carry out simulations to study the effects of uncertainty and randomness on the risk of hearing loss injury of the crowd. The proposed framework serves as a starting point for a comprehensive assessment of hearing loss injury risk, taking into consideration all realistic and relevant features of flash bang mortar. It also provides a platform for testing and updating component models.
  • 关键词:Risk of Significant Hearing LossMathematical Framework for Assessing Injury RiskEffective Injury AreaDecay of Acoustic Impulse along Ground SurfaceDose-Response RelationFluctuations in Actual Injury Numbers
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