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Explosion Overpressures

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Explosive Shocks in Air

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Abstract

Blast waves generated in a large variety of explosion situations can be described quantitatively by utilizing the facilities offered by the scaling law, the characteristics of a reference explosion, and the transmission behavior of the atmosphere. One method for organizing a description of some postulated explosion is by means of contour lines constructed to represent equal values of the peak overpressure; contours for equal durations and equal impulses per unit area for the positive pressure pulse of the blast wave system likewise can be constructed. The information there contained is needed for many military and nonmilitary purposes in connection with civil defense planning, with provisions for disaster relief, or for tactical problems.

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  1. U. S. Naval Postgraduate School, 93943, Monterey, California, USA

    Gilbert Ford Kinney

  2. Naval Weapons Center, 93555, China Lake, California, USA

    Kenneth Judson Graham

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Kinney, G.F., Graham, K.J. (1985). Explosion Overpressures. In: Explosive Shocks in Air. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-86682-1_8

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