Blast Overview and Near-Field Effects

Abstract

This report covers material presented at a workshop on high explosives incendiary modeling and was intended to set the stage for presentations to follow on the effects of multiple fragments and their effects on aircraft components. In this setting, blast is described as a ubiquitous damage agent associated with many conventional and unconventional (FAE and nuclear) weapons. The damage produced in an aircraft target by a high explosive incendiary projectile is generally quite localized in its effect. The effects are limited to a zone quite close to the projectile at its time of detonation, and the damages are produced by the combined action of the fragments from the projectile, the products of explosion, and also from the air blast produced. Two convenient divisions of blast are classified as internal and external. Reference to internal blast is when the damage is applied inside the structure of interest, and external blast is when the damage agent is applied to the exterior surface of the structure of interest.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA088239

Entities

People

  • Robert G. S. Sewell

Organizations

  • Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircrafts
  • Barometric Pressure
  • Blast
  • Blast Waves
  • Combustion
  • Detonations
  • Explosions
  • Explosive Charges
  • Explosives
  • High Explosives
  • Incendiary Projectiles
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Materials
  • Near Field
  • Projectiles
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Explosive Engineering.