COVID19 restrictions have impacted everyone in so many different ways. Professionally, it has limited the many conferences that are key to the development and critical review of developing bodies of knowledge. For their 73rd Annual Scientific Meeting, American Academy of Forensic Scientists (AAFS) developed a comprehensive “virtual conference”, with a variety of lectures, multiple tracks of concurrent programming, and keynote addresses. The sessions were recorded and available for several months afterwards to allow members to view any session they may have missed. The full library of all of the Proceedings is available to the public.
Bart Kemper presented “A Fatal Hyperbaric Treatment Explosion Investigation Incorporating Engineering Simulations With Verification and Validation.” This involved a hyperbaric chamber that was designed for treating horse. In this case, a horse undergoing enhanced oxygen and pressure treatment became upset and began kicking. This led to a fire that caused the chamber to explode, killing the horse and system operator and injuring another person. KES investigated the root cause of the event and had provided assessments regarding risk remediation. The presentation focused on using Verification and Validation (V&V) as a best practice for ensuring the quality of the results from Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), thereby reinforcing the strength of the conclusions.
KES plans to attend the 2022 AAFS Annual Scientific Meeting, which will be held in Seattle, WA.
The AAFS Annual Scientific Meeting poster session gallery, with attachments for download and an ability to leave comments. Live interaction was done via a chat window.
The first portion of the abstract published in the Proceedings of the 73rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Scientists, which is available online.
The poster presented by KES during the AAFS Annual Scientific Meeting regarding the Hyperbaric Chamber explosion.
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