High Performance Magazine Certification Test No. 3: Planning and Results

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Abstract:

The Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center NFESC is developing a new ordnance storage magazine, the High Performance Magazine HPM. The HPM is a partially buried, earthbermed, 2-story, box-shaped structure. The most important factor in the improved performance of the HPM is the reduction in the Maximum Credible Event MCE to a detonation, explosion, or fire involving a small fraction of the total quantity of explosives stored in the HPM. This performance is achieved by utilizing nonpropagation walls NPW and pit covers to segregate the ordnance and to prevent sympathetic reaction to closed storage cells. The HPM reduces by at least 80 percent the land encumbered by Explosives Safety Quantity-Distance ESQD arcs designed to protect people and property from effects of an accidental explosion.

Author(s):
Murtha, Robert N.
Author Organization(s):
NAVAL FACILITIES ENGINEERING SERVICE CENTER PORT HUENEME CA
Supplementary Note:
See also ADM001002. Published in the Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth DoD Explosives Safety Seminar Held in Orlando, FL on 18-20 August 1998.. The original document contains color images.
Pagination:
0039

Security Markings

DOCUMENT & CONTEXTUAL SUMMARY

Distribution:
Approved For Public Release
Distribution Statement:
Approved For Public Release; Distribution Is Unlimited.

RECORD

Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Monitor Series:
XD
 Subject Terms
Joint Capability Areas:
JCA_3.2_Engagement; JCA_3_Force Application; JCA_3.2.2_Non-Kinetic Means; JCA_7_Protection; JCA_7.2.1_Mitigate Lethal Effects; JCA_7.2_Mitigate; JCA_7.1.2_Prevent Non-kinetic Attack; JCA_7.1_Prevent; JCA_4.7.2_Installation Services; JCA_4.7_Base and Installations Support; JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_5.3_Planning; JCA_4.1_Deployment and Distribution; JCA_JCA_4.1.2_Sustain the Force; JCA_1.2_Force Preparation; JCA_1_Force Support; JCA_6.4.1_Secure Information Exchange; JCA_6_Net Centric; JCA_1.2.3_Educating; JCA_6.4_Information Assurance; JCA_8_Building Partnerships
Modernization Areas:
Directed Energy
Communities of Interest:
Weapons Technologies
Descriptor(s):
*MAGAZINES(ORDNANCE), *STORAGE, EXPLOSIVES, RESPONSE, ACCIDENTS, SAFETY, ORDNANCE, EXPLOSIONS, QUANTITY, PLANNING
Field(s)/Group(s):
Ammunition and Explosives
Keyword(s):
HPM(HIGH PERFORMANCE MAGAZINE)
Report Date:
1998 Aug 01
Creation Date:
2009 Aug 05