Evaluation of Explosives Simultaneity Tests
Abstract
This report presents the results and evaluation of two full-scale explosives tests conducted at NWC, China Lake, as part of the explosives hazards studies being carried out by the Armed Services Explosives Safety Board (ASESB). The tests were run to investigate the validity of the simultaneity provision in military quantity-distance regulations governing ammunition storage in the vicinity of inhabited buildings or facilities. The first (control) test involved the detonation of a single 10,000-pound hemispherical charge of TNT placed in the center of a donor structure constructed to storage-bay standards, with the charge located at the 865-foot regulation distance from a test house. A barricade was placed between the house and the charge. The second test was identical to the first except that two 5,000-pound hemispherical charges were used, each of which was placed in the center of an individual donor-bay compartment and separated by a specially constructed nonpropagation steel-reinforced concrete dividing wall. The two charges were detonated at a programmed time delay of approximately 20 msec, the nominal time interval noted between propagations in previous tests.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1969
- Accession Number
- AD0853518
Entities
Organizations
- Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake