Blasting and Blast Effects in Cold Regions. Part 3. Explosions in Ground Materials

Abstract

The effects of underground explosions are considered, first for deep explosions far from a free surface, then for shallow explosions which form craters and eject debris. The general pattern of behavior is established from compilations of test data for typical rocks and soils, and comparable compilations are made for the more limited test data relating to frozen soils, ice and snow.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA209382

Entities

People

  • Malcolm Mellor

Organizations

  • Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter IED
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Blast
  • Cold Regions
  • Construction
  • Doppler Effect
  • Elastic Waves
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Explosion Effects
  • Explosions
  • Explosive Ordnance Disposal
  • Explosives
  • High Explosives
  • Insensitive Explosives
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Mechanics
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Stress Waves

Readers

  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Computer Science.
  • Geotechnical Engineering.