Blast Shields Testing

Abstract

The impetus to the Blast Shields Testing Program was given by the catastrophic explosion of an S-IVB Stage at the test facility of McDonnell- Douglas in Sacramento, California, in which $2 000 000 worth of ground support equipment (OSE) located, unprotected, at different levels of the test stand, was lost.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1968
Accession Number
ADA383188

Entities

People

  • Walter V. Medenica

Organizations

  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter IED
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Dynamic Pressure
  • Explosions
  • Explosives
  • Frequency
  • Gages
  • Instrumentation
  • Liquid Oxygen
  • Measurement
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Pressure Transducers
  • Resonant Frequency
  • Static Pressure
  • Strain Gages
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Facilities
  • Test Stands
  • Transducers

Fields of Study

  • Physics

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