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Wounding Patterns And Human Performance In Knife Attacks: Optimising The Protection Provided By Knife-resistant Body Armour.

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Abstract

BACKGROUND:

Stab attacks generate high loads, y to defeat them, armour needs to be of a certain thickness and stiffness. Slash attacks produce much lower loads and armour designed to defeat them can be far lighter and more flexible.

METHODS AND SUBJECTS:

Phase 1: Human performance in slash attacks: 87 randomly selected students at the Royal Military College of Science were asked to make one slash attack with an instrumented blade on a vertically mounted target. No instructions on how to slash the target were given. The direction, contact forces and velocity of each attack were recorded. Phase 2: Clinical experience with edged weapon attacks: The location and severity of all penetrating injuries in patients attending the Glasgow Royal Infirmary between 1993 and 1996 were charted on anatomical figures.

REQUEST:

Phase 1: Two types of human slash behaviour were evident: a 'chop and drag' blow and a 'sweep motion' type of attack. ...

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The Role Of Stabbing And Slashing In Knife Combat

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You’ve got to know your weapon because your survival would depend on it. In knife fighting, you’ve got to know what damage a blade can do to the human anatomy.

Stabbing and slashing are the two fundamental ways of inflicting trauma with a knife. This is evident in the basic principle of Filipino knife fighting that says, “In every thrust there is a slash and in every slash there is a thrust.”

Stab wounds are considered more lethal than slash wounds because of the greater possibility of internal organ damage. Considering the application of force and the positioning of the weapon, stabbing has a greater chance of puncturing a vital organ than slashing. But the latter can be deadly too if it severed an artery.

Death by either stab wound or slash wound is often caused by shock. This kind of shock is different from emotional state of shock. “Hypovolemic shock...

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