Residual Stress and Coupling from Nuclear Shots in a Cavity.

Abstract

An investigation was made of the coupling into the ground from a nuclear device detonated in an air-filled cavity using the spherically symmetric SKIPPER code. The calculations showed that small air-filled cavities couple stronger than tamped events in tuff. However, larger air-filled cavities became almost completely decoupled and do not have a significant compressive residual stress field. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA062080

Entities

People

  • M. Friedman
  • N. Rimer

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Masses
  • Couplings
  • Department Of Defense
  • Energy
  • Equations
  • Geological Surveys
  • Ground Shock
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Radial Stress
  • Residual Stress
  • Residuals
  • Shock
  • Space Systems
  • Steady State
  • Stresses
  • Systems Science

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

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  • Explosive Engineering.