Modeling of Room Response to Air Blasts.

Abstract

A relatively simple model has been developed for the prediction of pressure response within a one room structure subjected to air blast. The model is based on an acoustic analysis and a room fill model. These models have been combined, together with a model for the entering diffracted shock, to produce a model which can predict the pressure-time response at any spatial location within the room. Good agreement is obtained when the model predictions are compared with measurements obtained from full scale field tests and scaled shock tube tests.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 22, 1979
Accession Number
ADA073555

Entities

People

  • Dennis Keefer

Organizations

  • University of Tennessee Space Institute

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Propagation
  • Acoustic Waves
  • Acoustics
  • Agreements
  • Amplitude
  • Blast
  • Blast Waves
  • Buildings And Structures
  • Equations
  • Field Tests
  • Frequency
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Reflection
  • Shock Tubes
  • Tubes
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • ballistics.