Accession Number:
AD0285599
Title:
SURFACE AIR BLAST MEASUREMENTS FROM A 100-TON TNT DETONATION
Descriptive Note:
Memorandum rept.
Corporate Author:
ARMY BALLISTIC RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1962-06-01
Pagination or Media Count:
53.0
Abstract:
The free field pressure-time histories measured at selected distances from a 100-ton TNT surface burst are presented. Included are plots of overpressure, duration, impulse, arrival time, and dynamic pressure all - versus distance. The measured values are compared with predicted curves which were prepared by scaling results from 5-ton and 20-ton surface bursts of the same geometrical shape and fired in the same gen ral area. The geometrical shape is a simulated hemisphere which was constructed by stacking cast TNT blocks in a planned pattern.
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Subject Categories:
- Ammunition and Explosives