Feasibility Investigation of a Permanent Fuel-Air Explosive Blast Simulator.

Abstract

Initial results from an investigation to determine the feasibility of using fuel-air-explosives (FAE) to simulate the airblast from a 1 KT nuclear blast are reported. A small scale blast facility was developed and tested. Up to 22.7 kg (50 lbs) of fuel such as propylene oxide can be disseminated through a hemispherical nozzle head containing 600 nozzles to form 9.14 m (30 ft) diameter hemispherical clouds which are subsequently detonated. The measured pressure history and impulse from several experiments were scaled and compared with 1 KT nuclear blast wave data. These initial results indicate that FAE can be used to simulate nuclear blast waves and that continued effort to develop the technology required to design a permanent, reuseable 1 KT FAE nuclear blast wave facility is therefore warranted. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 09, 1978
Accession Number
ADA086219

Entities

People

  • H. B. Kratz
  • R. G. Herrmann
  • R. T. Sedgwick

Organizations

  • Utility Systems Science and Software (United States)

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Biomedical
  • Counter IED
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Cameras
  • Computer Programs
  • Construction
  • Diameters
  • Explosives
  • Fuel Air Explosives
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Measurement
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Photographs
  • Physical Properties
  • Simulators
  • Stagnation Pressure
  • Static Pressure
  • Test Facilities
  • Waveforms

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Explosive Engineering.