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In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, the explosion expert Sam Rigby talks about his research, which focusses on protecting people, buildings and vehicles from explosions.
A structural engineer at the UK’s University of Sheffield, Rigby chats about the physics of explosions and describes a testing range that he and his colleagues use in the nearby Peak District. He also discusses the difficulties of understanding how a large blast will propagate through an urban area and explains how social media videos of the 2020 Beirut explosion informed his research.
- In the interview Rigby refers to two research papers: “Characterisation of buried blast loading”; and “Preliminary yield estimation of the 2020 Beirut explosion using video footage from social media
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Manage episode 340558972 series 2352990
In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, the explosion expert Sam Rigby talks about his research, which focusses on protecting people, buildings and vehicles from explosions.
A structural engineer at the UK’s University of Sheffield, Rigby chats about the physics of explosions and describes a testing range that he and his colleagues use in the nearby Peak District. He also discusses the difficulties of understanding how a large blast will propagate through an urban area and explains how social media videos of the 2020 Beirut explosion informed his research.
- In the interview Rigby refers to two research papers: “Characterisation of buried blast loading”; and “Preliminary yield estimation of the 2020 Beirut explosion using video footage from social media
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