Development of a Blast Simulator for Testing Simulated Aircraft Fuel Tanks.

Abstract

Anti-aircraft missile warheads pose a severe threat to aircraft even when the missile misses the aircraft. The threat from missile warheads can be divided into two primary areas for proximity detonation, fragments and blast. This report describes the development, calibration, and testing of a blast simulator capable of varying the blast parameters (i.e., pressure, impulse, and time duration), simulating those obtained at various standoff distances from a prototype warhead detonation. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA058816

Entities

People

  • A. B. Wenzel
  • E. D. Esparza

Organizations

  • Southwest Research Institute

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter IED
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Attenuators
  • Blast
  • Blast Loads
  • Engineering
  • Explosions
  • Explosives
  • Fuel Tanks
  • High Explosives
  • Measurement
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Sheet Explosives
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Strain Gages
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Missile Defense Systems.