Accession Number:

ADA055837

Title:

The Influence of a Detonating Layer on Craters and Shock Wave Transmission from Underground Explosions.

Descriptive Note:

Master's thesis,

Corporate Author:

AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OHIO SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Personal Author(s):

• Ben-Hai,Haim

Report Date:

1978-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

92.0

Abstract:

A Lagrangian, elastic, plastic and hydrodynamic computer code, named HEMP, was used to simulate the influence of a 1-meter thick concrete detonation layer on the shock wave transfer and crater size created by a 2000 pound general purpose G.P. bomb, buried 2 meters under the ground surface. The main conclusion is that the influence is very small. Author

Descriptors:

• *SHOCK WAVES
• *CONCRETE
• *CRATERS
• COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
• THICKNESS
• ELASTIC PROPERTIES
• UNDERGROUND EXPLOSIONS
• THESES
• FINITE DIFFERENCE THEORY
• WAVE PROPAGATION
• ATTENUATION
• PLASTIC PROPERTIES
• DETONATIONS
• LAGRANGIAN FUNCTIONS
• HARDENED STRUCTURES
• UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES
• BOMB DAMAGE

Subject Categories:

• Explosions

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE