Accession Number:

AD0876038

Title:

Underwater Pressure Measurements at Mono Lake, California - 1969

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

NAVAL ORDNANCE LAB WHITE OAK MD

Personal Author(s):

• Gaspin, Joel B.

Report Date:

1970-09-29

Pagination or Media Count:

52.0

Abstract:

The 1969 Mono Lake experimental program was designed primarily to study the air blast from shallow underwater explosions of charges weighing five tons or more. This report documents the mapping of the underwater pressure field, which was done in support of the air blast effort. The underwater instrumentation was designed to measure secondary pressures due to bulk cavitation phenomena, as well as direct shock waves. The present theory of bulk cavitation was found inadequate for the relatively shallow Mono Lake test geometries. In addition, it appears that the underwater data have unique features that resulted from the unusual lake environment.

Descriptors:

• *UNDERWATER EXPLOSIONS
• ACCURACY
• ALUMINIZED EXPLOSIVES
• ATTENUATION
• BLAST
• CALIFORNIA
• CAVITATION
• CRUSTACEA
• HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE
• LAKES
• NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS
• PREDICTIONS
• REFLECTION
• REFRACTION
• RUPTURE
• SALINITY
• SHALLOW WATER
• SHOCK WAVES
• SIMULATION
• SOUND TRANSMISSION
• SURFACE PROPERTIES
• VAPOR PRESSURE
• VELOCITY
• WATER VAPOR

Subject Categories:

• Explosions

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE