Accession Number:

AD0641977

Title:

NOTE ON THE DETERMINATION OF THE FORM OF AIR SHOCKS FROM THE DECAY CURVE

Descriptive Note:

Memorandum rept.

Corporate Author:

ARMY BALLISTIC RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD

Personal Author(s):

• Dewey, Jane

Report Date:

1952-02-01

Pagination or Media Count:

14.0

Abstract:

Expressions connecting the first derivative of the shock parameters just behind the front with the decay curves are given in the form convenient for comparison with experimental results, for plane, cylindrical and spherical shocks. Comparison of pressure-time gage measurements on spherical shocks with the decay curve for shocks from spherical Pentolite charges is included. The discussion is preliminary to the determination of the form of the shock from these charges now being undertaken by integration of the hydrodynamic equations along the Kirkwood-Brinkley decay curve.

Descriptors:

• *SHOCK WAVES
• *EXPLOSION EFFECTS
• EXPLOSIVE CHARGES
• MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
• PRESSURE
• EQUATIONS
• PENTOLITE

Subject Categories:

• Explosions

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE