NASTRAN Analysis Comparison to Shock Tube Tests Used to Simulate Nuclear Overpressures.

Abstract

This report presents a study of the effectiveness of the NASTRAN computer code for predicting structural response to nuclear blast overpressures. NASTRAN's effectiveness is determined by comparing results against shock tube tests used to simulate nuclear overpressures. Seven panels of various configurations are compared in this study. Panel deflections are the criteria used to measure NASTRAN's effectiveness. This study is a result of needed improvements in the survivability/vulnerability analyses capabilities of weapon systems subjected to nuclear blast. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA142290

Entities

People

  • T. K. Wheless

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Counter WMD
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Airplanes
  • Blast
  • Blast Waves
  • Computational Science
  • Computers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Displacement
  • Engineering
  • Experimental Data
  • Governments
  • Materials
  • Mechanics
  • Structural Analysis
  • Structural Response
  • United States
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Software Engineering
  • Structural Dynamics.