Tailoring the Blast Exposure Conditions in the Shock Tube for Generating Pure, Primary Shock Waves: The End Plate Facilitates Elimination of Secondary Loading of the Specimen

• Matthew Kuriakose ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Matthew Kuriakose, Maciej Skotak

  Affiliation Center for Injury Biomechanics, Materials and Medicine (CIBM3), Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, 07102–1982, United States of America

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• Maciej Skotak ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Matthew Kuriakose, Maciej Skotak

  Affiliation Center for Injury Biomechanics, Materials and Medicine (CIBM3), Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, 07102–1982, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2584-7294

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• Anthony Misistia,

  Affiliation Center for Injury Biomechanics, Materials and Medicine (CIBM3), Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, 07102–1982, United States of America

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• Sudeepto Kahali,

  Affiliation Center for Injury Biomechanics, Materials and Medicine (CIBM3), Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, 07102–1982, United States of America

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• Aravind Sundaramurthy,

  Affiliation Center for Injury Biomechanics, Materials and Medicine (CIBM3), Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, 07102–1982, United States of America

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• Namas Chandra

  * E-mail: namas.chandra@njit.edu

  Affiliation Center for Injury Biomechanics, Materials and Medicine (CIBM3), Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, 07102–1982, United States of America

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