An Overview of High-Explosive (HE) Blast Damage Mechanisms and Vulnerability Prediction Methods

Abstract

An overview of high-explosive (HE) blast phenomenology, its models, methods, and the scaling of results are presented. Experimental data of HE blast damage to various types of structures are also presented, together with some of the HE blast structural damage models. Empirical vulnerability models of weapon systems to HE blast are also discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA329188

Entities

People

  • Abdul R. Kiwan

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Counter IED
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Armored Personnel Carriers
  • Blast
  • Blast Waves
  • Composite Materials
  • Computational Science
  • Experimental Data
  • Explosions
  • Explosive Charges
  • Explosives
  • High Explosives
  • Materials
  • Munitions
  • Sea Level
  • Shock Waves
  • Structural Components

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Explosive Engineering.