Fiber-optics used to record high-speed photographs inside a pressurized tank during lethality testing
Sandia National Laboratories has a program underway to determine the survivability and lethality of potential targets subjected to high order impulse loads. This effort is associated with the Strategic Defense Initiative's (SDI) Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) program and is managed by the Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA). The energy from this class of weapons, impact the target surface simultaneously and produce an impulse that varies as the cosine of the angle of incidence. The goals of the program are to determine the relevant failure mechanisms, assess the validity of our numerical codes in modeling target behavior, provide a series of benchmark tests that can be used to improve our numerical capability, and provide the SDI community with estimates of survivability and lethality levels for various generic targets. The experiment described in this report is one in a series of similar experiments designed to model target behavior in the absence of material degradation and spall. 3 refs., 10 figs.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Labs., Livermore, CA (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-76DR00789
- OSTI ID:
- 7199407
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-88-8205; ON: DE88011283
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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