Accession Number:

AD0625396

Title:

BLAST EFFECTS ON U. S. ARMY WATER-STORAGE CONTAINERS

Descriptive Note:

Research rept. for Feb 1963-Jun 1965

Corporate Author:

ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LABS FORT BELVOIR VA

Personal Author(s):

• DesRosiers, Paul E.
• Lindsten, Don C.

Report Date:

1965-10-01

Pagination or Media Count:

46.0

Abstract:

The report covers a study made at the Suffield Experimental Station, Canada, investigating the vulnerability to blast of current military water- storage tanks and experimental, pillow-type, water-storage containers relative to 1 shock damage, and 2 water contamination resulting from air-borne dust. Tanks filled with water were exposed to the effects of a 500-ton TNT detonation. The results of the study indicate that 1 rubberized-fabric, water-storage tanks, both of the pillow and the upright-cylinder type with the exception of the top cover cloth which is subject to damage with overpressures as low as 5.2 psi, can withstand the shock effects from a high explosive detonation up to 9.8-psi overpressure 2 flying debris can cause extensive damage, regardless of overpressure and 3 the water in upright, cylinder tanks can become contaminated with sufficient air-borne dust to be above tolerances if the detonation is a nuclear one whereas, the water in pillow tanks remains uncontaminated.

Descriptors:

• *WATER TANKS
• *STORAGE TANKS
• PRESSURE
• BLAST
• RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION
• DETONATIONS
• FALLOUT
• WATER SUPPLIES
• ARMY EQUIPMENT
• VULNERABILITY
• TNT

Subject Categories:

• Civil Engineering
• Explosions

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE