Accession Number:
AD0742673
Title:
A Revised Empirical Approach to Airblast Prediction
Descriptive Note:
Final rept.
Corporate Author:
ARMY ENGINEER EXPLOSIVE EXCAVATION RESEARCH OFFICE LIVERMORE CA
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Report Date:
1971-11-01
Pagination or Media Count:
119.0
Abstract:
Airblast from buried chemical and nuclear detonations has been under systematic investigation for two decades. There now exists a sizable body of information collected during field experiments conducted over the years. The report contains a summary compilation of the available data for all significant large-yield events and synthesizes these data into an empirical prediction method. Since the airblast from buried detonations approaches a consistent attenuation at the longer ranges of interest for safety predictions, a purely empirical transmission factor analysis based on consistent longer range data from subsurface detonations is used.
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Subject Categories:
- Explosions