Hazards from Underwater Explosions

Abstract

The airblast and fragmentation produced in air by underwater explosions has been reexamined and reeanalyzed. The data were examined with the following questions in mind: (1) At what range does the Inhabited Building Distance (1.2 psi) and the Public Withdrawal Distance (0.07 psi) occur? (2) What are the fragmentation characteristics (velocity, launch angle, dispersion, mass) produced by underwater explosions? Both goals were met. A series of equations relating overpressure to scaled depth and scaled distance are derived and presented. Similarly, equations relating fragmentation characteristics to scaled depth are derived.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA529572

Entities

People

  • Michael. M. Swisdak Jr
  • Paul E. Montanaro

Organizations

  • Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Amplitude
  • Bombs
  • Data Sets
  • Department Of Defense
  • Detonations
  • Dispersions
  • Equations
  • Explosions
  • Explosive Charges
  • Explosives
  • Fragmentation
  • Materials
  • Ordnance Laboratories
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Surface Warfare
  • Underwater Explosions

Readers

  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design