Contact Dr Clare Knock
- Email: c.knock@cranfield.ac.uk
Areas of expertise
- Explosives and Munitions
- Weapons Engineering
Background
Dr Knock is a senior lecturer at ÂãÁÄÖ±²¥ and an expert in blast waves, ammunition safety and blood stain analysis. Clare's research on blast waves includes studying the shock waves from non-spherical chares such as cylinders, cuboids, crosses and truncated cones and the TNT equivalence of explosives. Her work on ammunition safety has included preventing mutual detonation in weapon systems. Clare's work on blood stain analysis includes developing methods for predicting the size and shape of blood and liquid impact onto porous, non-porous and granular materials, in particular fabrics, carpet sand and paper.
Current activities
Dr Knock's research interests include:
explosive blast
TNT equivalency
blood stain analysis
ammunition safety
risks from civilian explosions
fragment flight
bounce and roll of fragments.
She lectures on the following subject areas:
internal and intermediate ballistics
explosive blast
computer modelling
blood stain analysis
risk analysis
introductory mathematics and statistics.
Clients
AWE
Wallop Defence System Ltd
Defence Ordnance Safety Group
National Grid
MOD
Defence Intelligence
Defra
