Project Pre-Gondola I. Crater Studies: Surface Motion. Part 2.

Abstract

Project Pre-Gondola I was a series of chemical explosive, single-charge cratering experiments in weak, wet clay shale conducted by the U.S. Army Engineer Nuclear Cratering Group as a part of the Joint Atomic Energy Commission-Corps of Engineers nuclear excavation research program. The four 20-ton (nominal) charges were detonated during the period 25 October to 4 November 1966, near the edge of Fort Peck Reservoir approximately 18 miles south of Glasgow, Montana. Motions of the ground surface were measured by high-speed photography of surface ground zero. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0735671

Entities

People

  • J. E. Lattery
  • W. G. Christopher

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter IED

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cameras
  • Chemical Explosives
  • Cratering
  • Craters
  • Energy
  • Engineers
  • Excavation
  • Explosives
  • Ground Zero
  • High Speed Photography
  • Images
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Optical Equipment
  • Photographic Equipment
  • Photographic Materials
  • Photographic Recording Media
  • Photography

Readers

  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Geotechnical Engineering.
  • Seismology