CRATERS FORMED BY SMALL EXPLOSIONS IN DRY SAND

Abstract

In 1955, the Waterways Experiment Station (WES) completed a study of the effects of explosions in shallow water. During the course of this study, a great number of charges of various weights were detonated in shallow water over a sand bottom. As the shallow-water explosion effects program progressed, it became desirable to compare cratering data from charges fired in a water layer with data from charges fired as equivalent height of burst over dry media. A series of cratering shots were fired over, on, and within a dry-sand media in order to make possible this comparison. Such a comparison was made in the shallow-water report; however, the detailed results of the abbreviated test series in dry and were not reported therein. It is therefore the purpose of this paper to (a) describe the tests and (b) report the results and conclusions that are appropriate when the dry-sand cratering data are treated separately.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1962
Accession Number
AD0291494

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Blast Waves
  • Civil Engineering
  • Cratering
  • Craters
  • Diameters
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Explosion Effects
  • Explosions
  • Government Procurement
  • Grain Size
  • Height Of Burst
  • Moisture Content
  • Ordnance Laboratories
  • Shallow Water
  • Water
  • Waterways

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