A Reexamination of the Airblast and Debris Produced by Explosions Inside Earth-Covered Igloos

Abstract

The airblast and fragmentation produced by explosions inside earth- covered explosive storage structures (IGLOOS or bunkers) have been reexamined and assembled into this document. The data were examined with the following questions in mind: (1) How do they compare with current Department of Defense Standards? (2) Can the data be scaled to produce general empirically-derived prediction equations? (3) Do the structures tested during the Air Force Buffered Storage Test Program come from the same data family? These goals were met. Generalized prediction equations (with confidence limits) are provided for airblast. It was discovered that there is a major deficiency in the data relating to the debris/fragmentation produced by explosions in such structures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 28, 1991
Accession Number
ADA238844

Entities

People

  • Michael. M. Swisdak Jr

Organizations

  • Naval Surface Warfare Center

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Barometric Pressure
  • Confidence Limits
  • Construction
  • Data Sets
  • Department Of Defense
  • Energetic Materials
  • Engineering
  • Explosions
  • Explosives
  • Fragmentation
  • Materials
  • Munitions
  • Periodicals
  • Sea Level
  • Standards

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  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Regression Analysis.
  • Systems Analysis and Design