Calculational Investigation for Mine-Clearance Experiments

Abstract

The detonation of military line charges is being considered as a means to clear battlefields of implanted pressure-sensitive antitank mines.. Such charges have an undesirable characteristic, however, in that, for distances less than about 1 m from the line charge, phase duration of the positive overpressure is too short to detonate the mines. This region in which mine clearance may not occur is called the skip zone.... Line-Charge Effects, Mine Clearance, Skip Zone, Airblast, Hydrodynamic Computer Calculations, High Explosive Experiments, Line Charge Experiments, Line-Charge Calculations, and Charge Configuration Improvement.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 31, 1981
Accession Number
ADA259255

Entities

People

  • Charles E. Needham
  • Joseph E. Crepeau

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Pressure
  • Anti-Tank Mines
  • Charge Density
  • Detonation Waves
  • Energy
  • Equations
  • Experimental Data
  • Explosives
  • High Density
  • High Explosives
  • High Pressure
  • Inert Materials
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Shaped Charges
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering
  • Systems Analysis and Design