ESTABLISHMENT OF SAFETY DESIGN CRITERIA FOR USE IN ENGINEERING OF EXPLOSIVE FACILITIES AND OPERATIONS

Abstract

This report presents a summary of activities from January-December 1965 on the supporting studies to establish a Safety Design Criteria Program under the technical management of Picatinny Arsenal. Work performed in these areas is described: A model scale slab test program (1/3 and 1/10 scale) to investigate the response of reinforced concrete to blast loads; a model scale bay test program to evaluate the explosive capacity of a bay structure and to establish the validity of scaling; a 1/3 scale modified C-13 cubicle test to demonstrate the use of new design and construction techniques; a full-scale test program to complete the investigation for compartmenting igloos for safe storage of small weapons, and development of new impulse curves in a cubicle type structure.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0643871

Entities

People

  • Leon W. Saffian
  • Richard M. Rindner
  • Stanley Wachtell

Organizations

  • Picatinny Arsenal

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter IED
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Blast
  • Blast Loads
  • Cameras
  • Concrete
  • Construction
  • Design Criteria
  • Engineering
  • Explosions
  • Explosives
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Photographs
  • Photography
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Reinforced Concrete
  • Test Facilities

Readers

  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Facility/Structural Engineering.