Accession Number:
ADB088298
Title:
Threat Definition and Pilot Study in Support of the Care of Blast Injured Casualties.
Descriptive Note:
Final rept. Sep 82-Aug 83,
Corporate Author:
S-CUBED LA JOLLA CA
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1983-01-01
Pagination or Media Count:
44.0
Abstract:
A methodology for determining the battlefield airblast threat resulting from small high explosive weapons such as grenades and mines containing a few pounds of high explosives up through large nuclear warheads of the 5 megaton HE equivalent has been outlined. Two animal exposure tests were performed for WRAIR in which animals were exposed to airblasts generated by fuel-air explosives. Pressure profiles were measured at the ranges at which the animals were places. Personnel from WRAIR ran the actual experiments and S-CUBED provided the blastwave environment. Author.
Descriptors:
Subject Categories:
- Weapons Effects (Biological)