ROW-CHARGE CRATERS THROUGH TERRAIN WITH A SINGLE ELEVATION CHANGE (A CONTRIBUTION TO THE PLOWSHARE PROGRAM)
In earlier experiments, charge spacing rules were developed for excavating a uniform channel through level terrain. The experiment described was made to determine if those rules were also applicable to terrain with a single elevation change. The spacing rule for a channel with a uniform width was used. Too great an elevation change was used in the first few tests, resulting in a channel which was unacceptably narrow at the end with the higher elevation. For the later tests in which the elevation change was reduced, the spacing rules were found to produce a channel with uniform width throughout. The applicability of the spacing rules to terrain with a single elevation change was verified where the spacing between unequal size charges was the average of the spacing which would have been used had those charges been one of a row in level terrain. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Sandia Corp., Albuquerque, N. Mex.
- DOE Contract Number:
- AT(29-1)-789
- NSA Number:
- NSA-17-034069
- OSTI ID:
- 4680872
- Report Number(s):
- SC-4922(RR)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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