REVISED SIMILITUDE EQUATIONS FOR THE UNDERWATER SHOCK-WAVE PERFORMANCE OF PENTOLITE AND HBX-1

Abstract

All available data obtained from spherical and squat cylindrical HBX-1 and pentolite charges fired at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution were used to determine revised similitude equations for underwater shockwave parameters. Each equation represents an average and so when plotted lies in the band formed by the curves of previously obtained similitude equations. Nomographs for obtaining shockwave parameters are included.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1961
Accession Number
AD0325021

Entities

People

  • C. R. Niffenegger

Organizations

  • Naval Ordnance Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Ammonium Perchlorate
  • Ammunition
  • Explosions
  • Explosives
  • Maryland
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Munitions
  • New York
  • Ordnance Laboratories
  • Pentolite
  • Underwater Explosions
  • Underwater Ordnance
  • United States
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Military/Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technology
  • Structural Dynamics.