CALIBRATION STUDY OF (SFNSY) FLOATING SHOCK PLATFORM. PART 1. OPERATIONS AND INSTRUMENTATION,

Abstract

A series of 55 underwater explosives were fired against an instrumented Floating Shock Platform (FSP). The FSP is a specially designed barge regularly employed as a shock test vehicle for shipboard equipments up to 40,000 lb; for this calibration study three consecutive test loadsheavy, medium, and light-were installed to simulate actual equipment test conditions. Objectives were to define shock-response characteristics of the FSP under nonstandard attack configurations, and to evaluate shock measuring instrumentation based on accelerometer transducers rather than the commonly employed velocity transducers. Shock-response data is under analysis and will be the subject of a subsequent report; this report deals with operational and instrumentation aspects, including tabulation of the test geometries, test configurations, and the installed instruments. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 17, 1964
Accession Number
AD0435466

Entities

People

  • Merval W. Oleson

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accelerometers
  • Calibration
  • Communication Equipment
  • Explosives
  • Geometry
  • Instrumentation
  • Materials Handling Equipment
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Mechanical Equipment
  • Navigational Equipment
  • Platforms
  • Shipboard
  • Shock
  • Shock Tests
  • Test Vehicles
  • Transducers

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  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Metallurgy