BLAST PATTERNS IN COMPLEX TUNNEL MODELS

Abstract

The Ballistic Research Laboratories detonation-driven shock tube was utilized to expose four complex tunnel models to high pressure blast waves. The models were exposed to shock pressures of 200, 500, and 800 psi. The data obtained from the shock tube tests were reduced, plotted, and extrapolated to give expected values for the models when exposed to a 1500 psi shock wave from a 10 megaton nuclear weapon.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1964
Accession Number
AD0609289

Entities

People

  • George D. Teel

Organizations

  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Blast Waves
  • Electronics Laboratories
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • High Pressure
  • Maryland
  • New Jersey
  • New Mexico
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Ordnance Laboratories
  • Overpressure
  • Shock Tubes
  • Shock Waves
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Explosive Engineering.