SOME MEASUREMENTS OF TERRAIN EFFECTS ON BLAST WAVES

Abstract

During Operation Buster some of the nearby hills were instrumented using pressure gauges in an attempt to explore the manner in which terrain features influence the propagation of blast waves. Because of loss of records from experimental difficulties and lack of duplication of gauges, results are, at best, fragmentary. The evidence on the protective effects of hills is inconclusive, but there is definite evidence of a change in a blast proceeding up the front of a hill. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 12, 1952
Accession Number
AD0479248

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  • M. L. Merritt

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Pressure
  • Blast
  • Blast Waves
  • Equations
  • Errors
  • Gages
  • Ground Zero
  • Hugoniot Equations
  • Instrumentation
  • Measurement
  • Motor Generators
  • Power Series
  • Pressure Gages
  • Shock
  • Shock Waves
  • Technical Information Centers
  • Terrain

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  • Explosive Engineering.