Project Eskimore - An Update With Emphasis on a Proposed Earth-Covered Magazine Testing Program

Abstract

Project ESKIMORE, the Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board (DDESB) long-term testing initiative, was started in 2002 and its organization has been described at several previous DDESB Seminars. This paper will provide an update on the overall structure and status of the project, including its various components. One of the elements of the project is the updating of U.S. explosives safety quantity-distance (QD) criteria, to include earth-covered magazine (ECM) criteria. Currently, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has over 25,000 ECM storage sites with many different designs. These explosives storage facilities are used for the majority of U.S. DoD explosives storage, and hundreds of new ECMs are being built every year. This paper describes the scope of a proposed new component of Project ESKIMORE - the ECM Test Program. Elements of the ECM Test Program addressed here include program goals, proposed approach, schedule, debris collection, funding, and participation by other organizations and nations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA532130

Entities

People

  • Lea A. Cotton
  • Robert Conway

Organizations

  • United States Department of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter IED
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Blast Loads
  • Business Administration
  • Concrete
  • Construction
  • Cost Benefit Analysis
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Explosions
  • Explosive Charges
  • Explosives
  • Instrumentation
  • Materials
  • Munitions
  • Periodicals
  • Reinforced Concrete

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  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Explosive Engineering.