Surrogating Sub-Scale Munitions with Simple Cased Cylinders for Airblast Prediction Purposes

Abstract

A series of experiments was devised that involved both generic sub-scale munitions and carefully designed cased cylinder surrogates. Three tests of each configuration were performed producing measured airblast fields of peak pressure and peak impulse for each. These airblast fields were then inspected to determine if the cased cylinder surrogates produced an airblast field that was satisfactorily similar to the generic sub-scale munition. A description of these experiments and a discussion of the results are presented in this paper.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA430795

Entities

People

  • Alan P. Ohrt
  • Edward J. Blaney

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter IED
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Concrete
  • Detonations
  • Explosive Charges
  • Explosives
  • Gages
  • General Purpose Bombs
  • High Explosives
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Munitions
  • Pentolite
  • Pressure Gages
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering
  • Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures.