LOADING ON BURIED SIMULATED STRUCTURES IN HIGH-OVERPRESSURE REGIONS

Abstract

The objective was to study some of the factors affecting the transmission of air-blast-induced pressure through soil and the loading produced on buried structures by such pressures in the high-pressure region (approximately 250 psi). Factors studied by this project were: (1) the attenuation of pressure in a sand deposit when the water table is a few feet below the ground surface; (2) the effect of duration of positive phase of blast on the pressure transmitted through such a soil; (3) the effect of structure flexibility on the pressure acting on structures buried in such a soil; and (4) the relationship between horizontal and vertical pressures in such a soil. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 03, 1961
Accession Number
AD0355492

Entities

People

  • E. H. Bultmann Jr.
  • G. F. Mcdonough
  • G. K. Sinnamon

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Dynamic Loads
  • Dynamic Response
  • High Pressure
  • Hydrostatic Pressure
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Modulus Of Elasticity
  • Overpressure
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Pressure Gages
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Saturated Soils
  • Stiffness
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • Water
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Nuclear Civil Defense.