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Title: Simple blast model for structural design. [TATB-based explosive PBX 9502 and HMX-based PBX 9501]

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OSTI ID:5891425

Structures capable of either containing or surviving nearby detonating explosive are useful research tools for investigating properties of materials. Our particular interest is in spherical steel vessels that are only stressed elastically. Although there is a large amount of data describing blast waves in air, it is mostly for the farfield region R > 1 where R is the reduced radius - that is, the distance from the charge center divided by the cube root of the charge mass - expressed here in m/kg//sup 1///sup 3/. Our region of investigation was the range 0.3 < R < 0.7. For these distances the blast effect is mainly impulsive, and normally less than 1% of the explosive energy is coupled into kinetic energy of the vessel. The response of vessels to spherical charges of the HMX-based explosive PBX 9501 has been investigated both for vessels filled with ambient air and evacuated. A simple scaling model is used to correlate the data for various size vessels and to describe the impulse on structures. This model is then applied to one test of the TATB-based explosive PBX 9502. Finally, the immediate residual pressure in the vessels was measured to show the degree of short-term overpressure in evacuated structures. 1 ref., 2 figs., 3 tabs.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-36
OSTI ID:
5891425
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-85-3420; CONF-860616-3; ON: DE86000802
Resource Relation:
Conference: International symposium on intense dynamic loading and its effects, Beijing, China, 3 Jun 1986
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English