Predicting Community Response to Blast Noise

Abstract

The report presents a preliminary method for predicting levels of annoyance from artillery or blast noise in the environs of a military base. The means are given to relate various artillery pieces to a TNT equivalent and to normalize the overpressure from detonating various quantities of TNT to the overpressure from the detonation of one pound of TNT. Buried charges and aboveground detonations are also considered. Various ways to predict probable blast overpressure and frequency spectrum as a function of distance are discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0773690

Entities

People

  • Paul D. Schomer

Organizations

  • Construction Engineering Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Propagation
  • Acoustic Waves
  • Acoustics
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Aircraft Noise
  • Aircrafts
  • Audio Frequency
  • Explosions
  • Explosives
  • Frequency Bands
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Intact Stability
  • Munitions
  • Noise Reduction
  • Ordnance Laboratories
  • Sound Waves
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Acoustics.
  • Explosive Engineering.