Threat Definition and Pilot Study in Support of the Care of Blast Injured Casualties.

Abstract

A methodology for determining the battlefield airblast threat resulting from small high explosive weapons such as grenades and mines containing a few pounds of high explosives up through large nuclear warheads of the 5 megaton HE equivalent has been outlined. Two animal exposure tests were performed for WRAIR in which animals were exposed to airblasts generated by fuel-air explosives. Pressure profiles were measured at the ranges at which the animals were places. Personnel from WRAIR ran the actual experiments and S-CUBED provided the blastwave environment. (Author).

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADB088298

Entities

People

  • M. A. Groethe
  • R. T. Sedgwick

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter IED
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Battlefields
  • Casualties
  • Energetic Materials
  • Environment
  • Explosives
  • Fuel Air Explosives
  • High Explosives
  • Materials
  • Materials Testing
  • Nuclear Warheads
  • Pilot Studies
  • Test Methods
  • Warheads
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Explosive Engineering.