Analytical and Experimental Studies of the Response of a Cylinder to Nuclear Thermal/Blast Loads
Abstract
Two phenomena which are emitted from a nuclear weapon, whose target vulnerability ranges often overlap, are thermal radiation and blast waves. In most situations of interest to the Army, targets are exposed to a high percentage of the total available thermal pulse prior to blast wave arrival. This sequence of loads is detrimental to the survival of light weight structures in which significant in-depth heating occurs prior to the blast wave envelopment. There has been evidence that this thermal preheating causes enhanced structural damage (1,2). (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 18, 1982
- Accession Number
- ADA117482
Entities
People
- Frederick H. Gregory
- Richard J. Pearson
Organizations
- Ballistic Research Laboratory