HANDBOOK FOR PREDICTION OF AIR BLAST FOCUSSING

Abstract

The handbook sets forth the procedures and techniques for gathering and evaluating the meteorological data necessary for predicting the focus of air blast from surface or near surface explosions, and it describes simple devices to speed the calculations. All the graphs necessary for the evaluation are gathered for easy reference. Eighty-seven sets of vertical velocity gradients and the resulting sound ray paths are assembled for rapid determination of focal distance. These should cover most of the conditions to be expected throughout the continental United States.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1964
Accession Number
AD0602112

Entities

People

  • Beauregard Perkins Jr.
  • Willis F. Jackson.

Organizations

  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Propagation
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Civil Engineering
  • Construction
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Explosions
  • Explosives
  • Handbooks
  • Libraries
  • Materials
  • Meteorological Data
  • Military Research
  • New Jersey
  • New Mexico
  • United States
  • Wind Direction

Readers

  • Business Analytics
  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Wave Propagation and Nonlinear Chaotic Dynamics.