Accession Number:

ADA048003

Title:

Analysis of Ground Motion Data and Prediction Techniques from the Pre- DICE THROW II Events

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. Jan 76-Mar 77

Corporate Author:

GENERAL ELECTRIC CO ALBUQUERQUE NM TEMPO

Personal Author(s):

• Perry, Gerald L. E.
• Hudson, Craig C.
• Loring, Bruce P.

Report Date:

1977-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

262.0

Abstract:

Twenty-five experimenters and support agencies participated in the pre-DICE THROW II program. This program consisted of two HE events, one using a 100-ton surface-tangent sphere of TNT and the other a 120-ton surface-tangent domed cylinder of bagged ANFO. The purpose of this report is to compare certain aspects of the ground-motion data with the predictions made of these aspects before the tests. Four agencies were charged with providing predictions Air Force Weapons Laboratory Waterways Experiment Station R and D Associates and Field Command, DNA. This report consists of seven chapters, which include A brief description of the initiation of ground motion under a high-explosive detonation ground-motion transducers, canisters, grout and prediction methods summaries of the data from Events 1 and 2 and comparisons of these with the predictions analysis and authors conclusions. Author

Descriptors:

• *EXPLOSION EFFECTS
• *GROUND MOTION
• *HIGH EXPLOSIVES
• VELOCITY
• DISPLACEMENT
• WAVEFORMS
• BLAST WAVES
• CRATERING
• NUCLEAR EXPLOSION SIMULATION
• GROUT
• MATHEMATICAL PREDICTION
• WAVE PROPAGATION
• SEISMIC WAVES
• DATA ACQUISITION
• TABLES(DATA)
• TRANSDUCERS
• TNT
• AMMONIUM NITRATE
• FUEL AIR EXPLOSIVES

Subject Categories:

• Ammunition and Explosives
• Explosions

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE