Interpretation of long bones ballistic trauma
Abstract
In a forensic anthropology perspective, precise interpretation of long bone ballistic trauma could be the only way to determine features essential to understand the appearance of the wounds. The creation of a bone ballistic wound is a complex phenomenon that results from the action of a missile and the reaction of the bone tissue. Thus, it is often crucial to reconstruct the fracture site in order to analyze the fracture patterns. We have applied the previously established fundamentals of ballistic injury to cranial bones to the tubular structures on long bones (plug-and-spall bone fragments, radiating and concentric heaving fracture patterns). From interpretation of examples, we can conclude that the physics of ballistic penetration are constant and the material properties of cranial and tubular bone seem similar.
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Cranial vault trauma has been well studied compared to long bone injuries, despite these injuries also being key for reconstructing events surrounding a person's death.
“Cranial vault trauma has been well studied compared to long bone injuries, despite these injuries also being key for reconstructing events surrounding a person’s death [3,7,9].”
From Osteonal Damage Patterns from Ballistic and Blunt Force Trauma in Human Long Bones (2024) · cites this paper as [9]
In ballistic trauma, fracture patterns are linked to the energy transferred by the bullet and the bullet's material characteristics, kinetic energy, impact profile, deformation/fragmentation, as well as the biological characteristics of the target tissue.
“In ballistic trauma, fracture patterns are linked to the energy transferred by the bullet when impacting, penetrating, and perforating the bone and the bullet’s material characteristics, kinetic energy, impact profile, and deformation/fragmentation as well as the biological characteristics of the target tissue (elasticity, density and cohesiveness) [9,10].”
From Osteonal Damage Patterns from Ballistic and Blunt Force Trauma in Human Long Bones (2024) · cites this paper as [9]
As projectile velocity would be greater in a rifle, fracturing and fragmentation of the target bone would also be greater.
“As the projectile’s velocity would be greater in a rifle, so too would be the fracturing and fragmentation of the target bone [9].”
From Osteonal Damage Patterns from Ballistic and Blunt Force Trauma in Human Long Bones (2024) · cites this paper as [9]
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Sexton, K., Schwab, N., Galtés, I., Casas, A., Armentano, N., Brillas, P., Garrido, X., & Jordana, X. (2024) · Life · doi:10.3390/life14020220 · Cited by 8 · see citing works
- Authors
- Martrille, L., & Symes, S. A.
- Venue
- Forensic Science International
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-09
- Volume
- 302
- Pages
- 109890
- ISSN
- 0379-0738
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- 15
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- Language
- en
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