High Performance Magazine Certification Test of Nonpropagation Walls
Abstract
The Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center (NFESC) is developing a new magazine design, named the High Performance (HP) Magazine, for storage of ordnance. The HP Magazine is a partially buried, earth-bermed, 2-story, box-shaped structure. The HP Magazine reduces by at least 80 percent the land encumbered by Explosives Safety Quantity Distance (ESQD) arcs designed to protect people and property from effects of an accidental explosion. The most important factor in the improved performance of the HP Magazine is the reduction in the Maximum Credible Event (MCE) to a detonation, explosion, or fire involving a small fraction of the explosives stored in the HP Magazine. For example, the explosive storage capacity of the HP Magazine is 300,000 pounds net explosive weight (NEW), but the MCE is no more than 60,000 pounds NEW (total NEW in an open storage cell plus the shipping and receiving area (SRA)). This performance is achieved by utilizing nonpropagation walls (NPW) and pit covers to segregate the ordnance and to prevent sympathetic reaction to closed storage cells. The HP Magazine Certification Test No. 1 was conducted on 28 June 1995 at the Cactus Flat Test Range, China Lake, CA by the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWPNS) for the following critical storage cell sympathetic detonation hazard scenario.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1996
- Accession Number
- ADA498711
Entities
People
- Carl Halsey
- Edward M. Jacobs
- Robert N. Murtha
Organizations
- Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center