INFORMATION SUMMARY OF BLAST PATTERNS IN TUNNELS AND CHAMBERS (SECOND EDITION)

Abstract

Military requirements for protective construction have in recent years included blast hardened designs. This often means putting the construction deep underground and sets up requirements for information the behavior of blast wave in confined regions such as tunnels and chambers. The Shock Tube Facility at the Ballistic Research Laboratories (BRL) endeavored to obtain information on the behavior of blast waves in tunnels and chambers by instrumenting models of simple tunnel configurations with piezoelectric gages and subjecting the models to the blast wave from shock tubes. Data were obtained from models attached to the 24 in. circular tube, the 4 x 15 in. rectangular tube, and the high pressure tube. A compilation of the test results are presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1962
Accession Number
AD0274228

Entities

Organizations

  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Barometric Pressure
  • Blast Waves
  • Engineering
  • Geometry
  • Government Procurement
  • High Pressure
  • New Mexico
  • New York
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Shock Tubes
  • Shock Waves
  • Stagnation Pressure
  • Time Intervals
  • Walls
  • War Colleges
  • Waveforms

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electronics Engineering
  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Theoretical Analysis.