Responses of a Water Barricade and an Acceptor Stack to the Detonation of a Donor Munitions Stack
Abstract
This report documents the numerical modeling of the detonation of a simplified munitions stack, referred to as the 'donor' stack, in a temporary storage area and the subsequent effects on the immediate surroundings of the stack. A plausible configuration of a donor munitions stack, a water barricade, and an 'acceptor' munitions stack is modeled in a two-dimensional (2-D) Cartesian hydrocode computation using the CTH hydrodynamics computer code. The donor stack is modeled as an uncased condensed high explosive charge with a rectangular cross section. The water barricade has a trapezoidal cross section, and the acceptor stack is a solid rectangle. The loading on and pressures within the barricade are computed, as is the whole body motion of the barricade. A separate computation was then run with the water barricade, reconstituted into its original shape and translating at the late time velocity from the first computation, interacting with the acceptor stack. These computations were performed as part of a U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) study entitled 'Munitions Survivability Technology,' sponsored by the U.S. Army Defense Ammunition Logistics (Ammolog) Activity.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA342108
Entities
People
- Richard E. Lottero
Organizations
- United States Army Research Laboratory