Assessment of combined effects of blast and fire on personnel survivability. Final report 3 Apr 7-31 Jan 81

Technical Report · Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1982

OSTI ID:6519321

Longinow, A; Waterman, T E; Takata, A N

The objective of the study described was (1) to perform a preliminary analysis of hazards to sheltered personnel in a blast-fire environment produced by the detonation of a 1 MT nuclear weapon near the ground surface, and (2) to lay the basic ground work for developing a consistent, formal methodology for estimating the probability of people survival in a blast-fire environment.

• Research Organization: IIT Research Inst., Chicago, IL (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6519321
• Report Number(s): AD-A-117958/9
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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