FLEXIBLE UTILITY CONNECTIONS FOR UNDERGROUND PROTECTIVE SHELTERS

Abstract

A brief investigation was made of current flexible utility connection designs for buried protective shelters, design criteria for the connections, and information on differential soil-structure displacements caused by nuclear explosions. Some designs of flexible utility connections were found, but no design criteria were. Only a meager amount of information was found on differential soil-structure displacements. A recommendation is given to evaluate flexible utility connections.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 06, 1965
Accession Number
AD0454794

Entities

People

  • H. Tomita

Organizations

  • Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Blast Loads
  • Civil Engineering
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Design Criteria
  • Determinants (Mathematics)
  • Explosions
  • Free Field
  • Frequency
  • Ground Zero
  • National Security
  • Nuclear Explosions
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Security
  • Shock Response Spectra
  • Spectra

Readers

  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design