{"id":654,"date":"2025-01-16T17:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T17:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chemfs\/?p=654"},"modified":"2025-01-16T17:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T17:07:08","slug":"new-experimental-ballistics-facility-opens-at-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chemfs\/2025\/01\/16\/new-experimental-ballistics-facility-opens-at-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"New experimental ballistics facility opens at Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kent\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/school-of-natural-sciences\">School of Natural Sciences<\/a>\u00a0has recently opened a new experimental ballistics facility for teaching and research, adding to its unique portfolio of specialist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/chemistry-forensic-science\">forensics<\/a>\u00a0facilities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ballistics, the science of the propulsion, flight, and impact of projectiles, has a range of applications including: informing crime scene investigations, improving wound care and helping to design safer buildings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/chemistry-forensic-science\/undergraduate\">Forensic science students<\/a>\u00a0and researchers will use the new facility on our Canterbury campus to build an understanding of how gun bullets behave within a crime scene and how different projectiles might behave in the body and how this might feed into the wound created. The facility will enhance\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/undergraduate\">undergraduate<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/postgraduate\">postgraduate<\/a>\u00a0students\u2019 experiences of learning how shooting scenes are restructured and how ballistics are investigated.<\/p>\n<p>The walls in the ballistics facility are lined with anti-ricochet panels with a bank of rubber at the end to absorb the bullets. Guns can be positioned and secured in place with high-end equipment. There is a piece of equipment that can simulate any gun, while square frames can be used to measure a bullet\u2019s velocity. There is also a ventilation system built in to remove any chemicals produced by the shooting of the bullet away from the people using the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Students and researchers will also be able to analyse bullets from crime scenes (to relate them back to particular firearms) using Kent\u2019s cutting-edge comparison microscope.<\/p>\n<p>External organisations with a ballistics testing need will also be able to hire the facility.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-655\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chemfs\/files\/2025\/01\/NEBR5016-768x1152-1.jpg\" alt=\"Equipment in Kent's Experimental Ballistics Facility\" width=\"768\" height=\"1152\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent\u2019s\u00a0School of Natural Sciences\u00a0has recently opened a new experimental ballistics facility for teaching and research, adding to its unique portfolio of specialist\u00a0forensics\u00a0facilities. Ballistics, the science &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chemfs\/2025\/01\/16\/new-experimental-ballistics-facility-opens-at-kent\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37654,"featured_media":656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[99399,70,28766],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chemfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chemfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chemfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chemfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chemfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chemfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chemfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chemfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chemfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chemfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chemfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}