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As part of an investigation of the biophysics and physiology of blast injury1,2, the experiments to be reported here were conducted in order to determine the velocity and damping of a high-explosive shock wave during propagation through a layer of muscular tissue. The velocity of sound in various animal tissues and organs has been extensively studied by Frucht3. Concerning the velocity of finite pulses, such as shock waves, no experimental observations are available, and due to the predominance of water in most animal tissues the speed of shock-wave transmission in the body has been supposed to approach that of sound in water4.
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CLEMEDSON, CJ., JÖNSSON, A. & PETTERSSON, H. Propagation of an Air-transmitted Shock Wave in Muscular Tissue. Nature 177, 380–381 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177380a0
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