A Predictive Scheme for the Blast Environment of Army Weapons. Part 1. Development and Validation of the Theory

Abstract

This is the first of three reports investigating the muzzle blast fields from the firing of Army weapons. This report presents theory and validation obtained by comparing analysis and muzzle blast field data. This first report limits investigation to the forward hemisphere of the blast field. The theory ganerally follows the data within the experimental error. The advantages of the theory are: its independence of empirical constants: and, the ease with which the computations are performed. Versions of the theory exist on minicomputers and on programmable pocket calculators.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA053487

Entities

People

  • Benjamin Cummings
  • Bruce Henriksen

Organizations

  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

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

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artillery
  • Boundary Layer
  • Civil Engineering
  • Dynamic Pressure
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Explosions
  • Explosive Charges
  • Explosives
  • Geometry
  • Howitzers
  • Military Research
  • Muzzle Velocity
  • Projectiles
  • Self Propelled
  • Self Propelled Guns
  • Small Arms

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Statistical inference.
  • ballistics.