Accession Number:

ADP005364

Title:

DRAG COEFFICIENTS FOR IRREGULAR FRAGMENTS

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

NAVAL SURFACE WEAPONS CENTER DAHLGREN VA

Personal Author(s):

• MCCleskey, Frank

Report Date:

1986-08-01

Pagination or Media Count:

43.0

Abstract:

The Naval Surface Weapons Center NSWC has a continuing task from the Department of Defense Explosive Safety Board DDESB to establish methods for predicting the fragment hazards due to the inadvertant explosion of ordnance items. As part of this task, NSWC has established a computer model which predicts fragment hazards. The computer model calculates individual trajectories for each fragment recovered in small-scale fragment arena tests.

Descriptors:

• *HAZARDS
• *EXPLOSION EFFECTS
• *COEFFICIENTS
• *DRAG
• *AMMUNITION FRAGMENTS
• MATHEMATICAL MODELS
• COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
• SYMPOSIA
• PREDICTIONS
• SHAPE
• MACH NUMBER
• PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES

Subject Categories:

• Explosions
• Ballistics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE