COMEX: A Computer Model for Design and Optimizing Magazines of Explosive Materials

Abstract

COMEX (Computer model for design and Optimizing Magazines of EXplosive materials), was designed to examine resistance of magazines against blast and impact created by explosion of soil covered neighboring magazines. The input contains locations and structures of magazines, inhabited sites and roads. The effect of explosion is examined on the base of ESKI?MO tests' data and structure resistance of neighboring magazines. With safety considerations of magazines, roads and inhabited sites, the model computes maximum permissible mass of explosive (TNT equivalent). The model can treat over a hundred magazines in a ranch, designing configurations of new ranches or maximizing permissible storage in existing ranches, possibly by emptying some of the magazines.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA509232

Entities

People

  • B. Grosman
  • D. Elial
  • G. Sagi
  • J. Ravid
  • S. Grossman

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Back Pressure
  • Blast
  • Computations
  • Computers
  • Concrete
  • Deflection
  • Determinants (Mathematics)
  • Engineering
  • Explosions
  • Explosives
  • Mass Storage
  • Materials
  • Orientation (Direction)
  • Periodicals
  • Resistance
  • Systems Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Wetland-Land-Environmental Management.