The Centrifugal Simulation of Blast Parameters.

Abstract

This study is concerned with the use of a centrifuge as an experimental device on which free-field blast parameters could be evaluated. Free-field normal stress, created by the detonation of simulated high-explosive charges, was recorded within a sand medium. A series of experiments was concerned with the measurement of free-field normal stress, created by exploding buried charges. Another test series was concerned with the free-field normal stress beneath a concrete burster slab. The results of this study indicate that a centrifuge can be used as a simulator on which free-field blast effects can be evaluated. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA136978

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  • J. P. Nielsen

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Communities of Interest

  • Counter IED
  • Counter WMD
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Facilities
  • Blast
  • Blast Loads
  • Civil Engineering
  • Data Acquisition
  • Explosions
  • Explosives
  • High Explosives
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Measurement
  • Mechanics
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Regression Analysis
  • Research Facilities
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Wave Propagation

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  • Explosive Engineering.