The High Performance Magazine Concept

Abstract

A new storage magazine is needed by the Navy to solve munitions storage problems. Existing magazines encumber large land areas to meet explosives safety quantity distance (ESQD) requirements. A growing inventory of weapons (requiring new magazine construction), with limited land for new explosive storage magazines, is creating conflicts between safety requirements, operational requirements, MILCON cost, and operating cost to store and retrieve weapons.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA515271

Entities

People

  • James E. Tancreto
  • William A. Keenan

Organizations

  • Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Blast Loads
  • Cellular Structures
  • Civil Engineering
  • Computer Programs
  • Concrete
  • Construction
  • Detonations
  • Explosions
  • Explosive Charges
  • Explosives
  • High Explosives
  • Materials
  • Munitions
  • Periodicals
  • Reinforced Concrete
  • Standards
  • Sympathetic Detonations

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design