ESTIMATE OF MAN'S TOLERANCE TO THE DIRECT EFFECTS OF AIR BLAST

Abstract

Tolerance indices were determined, allowing for the effects of body mass, for thirteen mammalian species using the results of experiments in which animals were exposed near a normally reflecting surface to shocked blast waves whose durations ranged from 0.24 to 400 msec. A general equation was developed for expressing the interrelations between overpressure, duration of the blast wave, body mass, and probability of survival.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0693105

Entities

People

  • Donald R. Richmond
  • E. R. Fletcher
  • I. G. Bowen

Organizations

  • Lovelace Foundation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Blast
  • Blast Loads
  • Blast Waves
  • Department Of Defense
  • Experimental Data
  • Explosions
  • Explosives
  • Factor Analysis
  • Free Stream
  • High Explosives
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Laboratory Animals
  • Measurement
  • Rodents
  • Surface Burst
  • Thorax
  • Waves

Readers

  • Aquatic Ecology
  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Regression Analysis.