High Performance Magazine Acceptor Threshold Criteria
Abstract
The Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center is developing a new ordnance storage magazine that will reduce encumbered land and improve operational efficiency. Non propagation walls are used to prevent sympathetic detonation between munitions stored in adjacent cells. Design of the walls, and their mitigation effects, requires sympathetic detonation threshold criteria for acceptor munitions. This paper outlines the procedures being used to develop SD threshold criteria, summarizes test and analysis methods, shows and compares test and analysis data, and provides preliminary SD threshold criteria. The Naval Facility Engineering Service Center (NFESC), formerly the Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory (NCEL), is developing a new ordnance storage magazine, the High Performance Magazine (HPM). The performance goals of the HPM are to reduce encumbered land and to improve operational efficiency. The concept uses cell and aisle walls to prevent propagation of an explosion to adjacent cells. This significantly reduces the Maximum Credible Event (MCE), reducing encumbered land by at least 80% and reducing safe standoff range by more than 60%. The non-propagation dividing walls also allow storage of non compatible ordnance in the same magazine. A new handling system, using an overhead bridge crane and universal straddle lift, provides improved operational efficiency.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1994
- Accession Number
- ADA507375
Entities
People
- James E. Tancreto
- Javier Malvar
- Michael Swisdak
Organizations
- Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center