Development of Airblast and Soil Strength Instrumentation.

Abstract

The development and testing of airblast and soil strength gauges are presented. The airblast sensors include an accelerometer instrumented drag sphere to measure dynamic pressure and bar gauge probes to measure static, stagnation and reflected pressures at levels to 10 to the 8th power Pa (1 kilobar). The soil strength gauge is a shock hardened dynamic cone penetrator. An analysis of a slug type heat flux sensor is given. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA090123

Entities

People

  • M. A. Groethe
  • P. L. Coleman

Organizations

  • Utility Systems Science and Software (United States)

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Dynamic Pressure
  • Explosives
  • Generators
  • Instrumentation
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Testing
  • Measurement
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Radiation
  • Resonant Frequency
  • Specific Heat
  • Stagnation Pressure
  • Static Pressure
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Beds
  • Thermal Radiation

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics of Materials.