Regional Ground Motions from a One Megaton Surface Burst.

Abstract

Ground motions from a numerical simulation of a one megaton nuclear surface burst are propagated to regional distances (3.5 to 350 miles) through earth models appropriate to three sites at Minuteman Wings IV, V and VI. Synthetic ground motions and response spectra are examined and compared as functions of range and earth structure. In addition, the ground motions due to the airblast alone were compared with those due to the full surface burst simulation and were found to provide a good approximation to the full solution. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA104189

Entities

People

  • T. G. Barker

Organizations

  • Utility Systems Science and Software (United States)

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Computational Science
  • Earth Models
  • Earth Sciences
  • Elastic Properties
  • Elastic Waves
  • Explosions
  • Far Field
  • Frequency
  • Geography
  • Geophysics
  • Materials
  • Nuclear Explosions
  • Secondary Waves
  • Surface Burst
  • Surface Waves
  • Wave Propagation

Readers

  • Approximation Theory.
  • Explosive Engineering.