High Performance Magazine Certification Test No. 3: Planning and Results
Abstract
The Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center (NFESC) is developing a new ordnance storage magazine, the High Performance Magazine (HPM). The HPM is a partially buried, earthbermed, 2-story, box-shaped structure. The most important factor in the improved performance of the HPM is the reduction in the Maximum Credible Event (MCE) to a detonation, explosion, or fire involving a small fraction of the total quantity of explosives stored in the HPM. 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 HPM 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.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA502393
Entities
People
- Robert N. Murtha
Organizations
- Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center