Analytical Representations of Blast Damage for Several Types of Targets

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the 'Square Root Damage Law'--an analytical method of computing blast damage on target complexes. The Law assumes that target value is a continuous function of position, and replaces a set of individual weapons attacking a target by a weapon density function that is optimized to give maximum damage. This basic approach is applied to several types of target damage functions and methods of weapon targeting. Attention is restricted to cases where the results can be presented in relatively simple analytical form. The derivations are presented in some detail to illustrate the nature of the results obtained. Charts of damage are presented for sets of dimensionless parameters that govern the damage sensitivity to weapon usage. As a practical application, they can form detailed numerical calculations of the damage for a particular target from a specific set of weapon aimpoints.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA068502

Entities

People

  • Leo A. Schmidt Jr.

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Facilities
  • Arms Control
  • Blast
  • California
  • Casualties
  • Dispersions
  • Exponential Functions
  • Fatalities
  • Linear Accelerators
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Numbers
  • Square Roots
  • United States
  • United States Military Academy
  • Urban Areas
  • Virginia

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