Assessment of Accident at Radford Army Ammunition Plant

Abstract

A desk study was conducted to assess probable sequences of events that could have led to a flash fire and subsequent lethal explosion of a double- base rocket propellant grain being machined to final dimensions. The incident occurred at the Radford Army Ammunition Plant, Virginia, on about 28 March 1988. A rational and highly likely scenario was hypothesized that encompassed all of the most credible probabilities.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA275216

Entities

People

  • James K. Ingram

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accidents
  • Ammunition
  • Combustion
  • Combustion Products
  • Detonation Waves
  • Detonations
  • Double Base Propellants
  • Double Base Rocket Propellants
  • Explosions
  • Explosives
  • Fires
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Propellant Grains
  • Propellants
  • Rocket Propellant Grains
  • Rocket Propellants

Readers

  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering
  • Rocket Propulsion.
  • Systems Analysis and Design