Accession Number:
AD0735652
Title:
Project Pre-Schooner II: Air-Blast Measurements,
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Corporate Author:
SANDIA LABS ALBUQUERQUE N MEX
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Report Date:
1967-09-01
Pagination or Media Count:
61.0
Abstract:
Air blast resulting from detonation of 85.5 tons of nitromethane buried 71 feet in rhyolite rock was measured close-in, both along the ground and in a vertical field above the explosion, and also at long distances from the explosion. Close-in-air-blast wave forms consisted of two positive pulses, the first induced by the ground shock and the second, larger, pulse from venting gas. Measured ground-shock-induced peak overpressures were larger than anticipated. A tentative overpressure and energy distribution in the field above the explosion was derived. Author
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Subject Categories:
- Geology, Geochemistry and Mineralogy