AIR BLAST EFFECTS ON UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES,

Abstract

The general purpose of this project was to obtain the necessary basic data from which to develop criteria for the economical and efficient design of underground protection from air-blast forces. The specific objectives were: (1) to investigate the nature of the forces transmitted from an air burst of an atomic device through the earth to underground structures; (2) to determine the variation of these forces with the depth of the structure in the earth and with the flexibility of the structural elements; and (3) to study the response of simple structural elements of different stiffnesses and effective masses subjected to the transmitted dynamic forces.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 20, 1957
Accession Number
AD0617175

Entities

People

  • G. K. Sinnamon
  • N. M. Newmark
  • R. E. Woodring

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Blast
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Physical Properties
  • Resilience
  • Stiffness
  • Underground Structures

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Explosive Engineering.