Explosion Containment: Progress, Scaling Laws, and Material Properties,
Abstract
The Battelle Ordnance Technology Section has been involved for several years with the development of Navy (Tri-Service) technology for the containment of explosions in portable spherical chambers. The central topic of this paper concerns the room temperature testing of a Frostline steel vessel with 22 repetitive explosions from 4.54 kg (10 lb) charges of Composition C-4 high explosive. The cumulative plastic deformation of the shell has been analyzed in the impulse approximation to give effective values for the Frostline mechanical equation of state. Evidence of work hardening is found. Scaling laws predicting the peak elastic response of explosively loaded spherical shells are compared. Recent literature on the topic of explosion containment, including Soviet interest, is briefly reviewed. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1982
- Accession Number
- ADP000447
Entities
People
- B. Dale Trott
- John J. White Iii
Organizations
- Battelle Memorial Institute