Airblast Vulnerability Envelopes for Supersonic Aerospace Vehicles

Abstract

A procedure for constructing airblast vulnerability envelopes for supersonic vehicles has been derived which enables the analyst to determine which portions of the envelope are valid. For simplicity, an overpressure of 1 lb/sq in. is used as a damage criterion throughout this report and nonhomogeneous atmosphere effects are ignored. Maximum and minimum shock front velocities are derived for the catching curve as well as the lower limit for the detonation orientation angle theta. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA072247

Entities

People

  • Gerald M. Campbell

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerospace Craft
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Aircrafts
  • Altitude
  • Barometric Pressure
  • Detonations
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Mach Number
  • New Mexico
  • Orientation (Direction)
  • Overpressure
  • Sea Level
  • Slant Range
  • Supersonic Aircraft
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Statistical inference.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow
  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers