ON THE ORIGIN OF SHOCKWAVES FROM CONDENSED EXPLOSIONS IN AIR. PART 2 MEASUREMENTS OF AIRSHOCK PRESSURES FROM 8-LB TNT SPHERES OF VARIOUS DENSITIES AT AMBIENT PRESSURES,
Abstract
Airshock pressures were measured over the range from about 80 to 2 psi from about 25 TNT spheres of density ranging from about 1.01 to 1.625 gm/cucm. The purpose of these experiments was to examine the validity of some of the concepts assumed to hold in the use of cube-root scaling procedures. The results indicate that the airshock peak pressures and the pressure-time signatures do not depend on the calculated detonation variables of the various density spheres. Instead, the airshock pressure depends only on the energy released by the explosion, verifying a basic assumption of the cube-root procedure. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1963
- Accession Number
- AD0422442
Entities
People
- L. Rudlin
Organizations
- Naval Ordnance Laboratory