A Predictive Scheme for the Blast Environment of Army Weapons. Part 2. Applications

Abstract

This report presents an application of the theories developed in Part I to guns ranging in diameter from .30 caliber to 8 inches. Agreement between theory and experiment is good over the entire diameter range for the blast field overpressure. The theory was also applied to a 105mm howitzer of different loadings with equally good results. A different approach for determining the pulse length is presented. As with the data in Part I, the scatter is sufficiently large that no firm conclusions can be drawn concerning the validity of the approach.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA066107

Entities

People

  • Bruce Henriksen
  • Dennis Keefer

Organizations

  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Blast
  • Blast Waves
  • Boundary Layer
  • Civil Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Equations
  • Experimental Data
  • Explosions
  • Explosive Charges
  • Explosives
  • Geometry
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Military Research
  • Muzzle Velocity
  • Propellants
  • Security

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Theoretical Analysis.
  • ballistics.