Literature Survey of Blast and Fire Effects of Nuclear Weapons on Urban Areas

Abstract

The purpose of this literature survey was to determine the state of knowledge of blast and fire effects of nuclear weapons on urban areas. This information should aid the planning of research in improving predictive capabilities and the development of mitigation and hardening measures. This report consists of summaries of our findings in four main areas: (1) attack scenario, thermal radiation and blast wave propagation; (2) ignition; (3) structural response and debris formation; and (4) fire spread and mass fire. Conclusions are given for each section, and our overall conclusions are presented at the end. The first appendix summarizes the relative state of knowledge, while the second appendix is a bibliography of relevant documents.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA123684

Entities

People

  • D. B. Mccallen
  • S. W. Kang
  • T. A. Reitter

Organizations

  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Burning Rate
  • Civil Defense
  • Combustion
  • Composite Materials
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Explosives
  • Fires
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Science
  • Materials Testing
  • Mechanics
  • Nuclear Explosions
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Predictive Modeling
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Fire Suppression Systems Design.
  • Library and Information Science