REPAIR AND RECLAMATION OF GAS AND ELECTRIC UTILITY SYSTEMS
Abstract
The study was directed toward identifying the essential subsystems and components of metropolitan gas and electric utility systems, determining their functional relationships, estimating the damage to critical elements from various nuclear weapons effects, and estimating the repair requirements for restoring damaged systems. A mathematical repair model was developed and applied to 'typical' city, and from the results of the study, time repair effort including manpower by skills, was derived. The major findings of the report are: (1) Being located primarily below ground and comprised of elements having great structural strength, metropolitan gas utility systems tend to be much less vulnerable to weapon damage than electric utility systems. Further, gas system installations are generally less complex in design and function and, therefore, impose smaller and less stringent repair requirements in terms of manpower, skills, equipment, spare parts, and materials. (2) The level of damage, expressed as overpressure (and related weapon effects) can be related to repair effort by an experimental function. This mathematical repair model can be used to predict repair requirements (including men and materials under various assumed attack conditions) for real utilities and real cities.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1967
- Accession Number
- AD0665307
Entities
People
- Carl R. Foget
- Gail B. Boyd
- William H. Van Horn