Download or read book Blast and Thermal Effects written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blast and Thermal Effects of an Atomic Bomb on Typical Tactical Communication Systems written by Jacob Eggert and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE Project 3.20 was to determine the effects of air burst nuclear weapons on selected items of signal communication equipment. Typical items of this equipment, such as would be found in a communications zone or field army area, were oriented in test groups at varying distances from GZ to obtain an anticipated damage spread from severe to negligible. Participation in Shot 9 consisted of 93 such test groups. Participation in Shot 10 was limited to 17 test groups because of shortage of funds, materiel, and labor. Photographic records of damage, and evaluations of the levels of damage, were made by project personnel. The anticipated spread from negligible to severe damage was obtained for the majority of the test groups. Recorded values, and predicted values (from TM23-200), for thermal flux, peak overpressures, and initial gamma radiation were in close agreement in both Shots 9 and 10. The damage from Shot 9 was about what was expected. (Author).
Download or read book The Nuclear Arms Race written by Paul P. Craig and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1990 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of a very current interdisciplinary book covers both technical material and social issues, to give readers of all backgrounds a sense of the overall implications of the arms race. Weapons are the primary focus of the book, with the history of their development and nuclear politics included in the introductory chapters. There is a thorough discussion of global nuclear exchange, which considers the consequences of an all-out nuclear war, the psychological impact of the threat and actual nuclear war; the atomic bombings of Japan; and the biological effects of radiation from nuclear weapons.
Download or read book Effects of Nuclear Earth Penetrator and Other Weapons written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-10-06 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Underground facilities are used extensively by many nations to conceal and protect strategic military functions and weapons' stockpiles. Because of their depth and hardened status, however, many of these strategic hard and deeply buried targets could only be put at risk by conventional or nuclear earth penetrating weapons (EPW). Recently, an engineering feasibility study, the robust nuclear earth penetrator program, was started by DOE and DOD to determine if a more effective EPW could be designed using major components of existing nuclear weapons. This activity has created some controversy about, among other things, the level of collateral damage that would ensue if such a weapon were used. To help clarify this issue, the Congress, in P.L. 107-314, directed the Secretary of Defense to request from the NRC a study of the anticipated health and environmental effects of nuclear earth-penetrators and other weapons and the effect of both conventional and nuclear weapons against the storage of biological and chemical weapons. This report provides the results of those analyses. Based on detailed numerical calculations, the report presents a series of findings comparing the effectiveness and expected collateral damage of nuclear EPW and surface nuclear weapons under a variety of conditions.
Download or read book First Course in the Differential and Integ written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blast Effects written by Isabelle Sochet and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compiles a variety of experimental data on blast waves. The book begins with an introductory chapter and proceeds to the topic of blast wave phenomenology, with a discussion on Rankine-Hugoniot equations and the Friedlander equation, used to describe the pressure-time history of a blast wave. Additional topics include arrival time measurement, the initiation of detonation by exploding wires, a discussion of TNT equivalency, and small scale experiments. Gaseous and high explosive detonations are covered as well. The topics and experiments covered were chosen based on the comparison of used scale sizes, from small to large. Each characteristic parameter of blast waves is analyzed and expressed versus scaled distance in terms of energy and mass. Finally, the appendix compiles a number of polynomial laws that will prove indispensable for engineers and researchers.
Download or read book The Effects of Nuclear Weapons written by United States. Defense Atomic Support Agency and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Summary of Methods for Computing the Degradation of Structural Elements Due to the Thermal and Thermal Blast Effects of Nuclear Weapons written by Donald M. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report reviews and summarizes an existing large body of work on the effects of thermal radiation alone and thermal radiation combined with air blast effects on military structures or systems. All nuclear weapon phenomena were considered in order to find the ranges where thermal and thermal-blast effects are the most important. Methodology for computing thermal and thermal-blast effects is summarized and references are given to provide the omitted details. The methods given were all used to compute effects in simple structural elements which are taken to be components of larger structures or systems. Graphs for thermal effects are presented which allow estimates of the resulting peak temperatures but no corresponding result exists for stresses due to thermal-blast effects. Instead, examples are given to illustrate general principles and computer programs are referenced for the solving of specific problems.
Download or read book The Effects of Nuclear Weapons written by United States. Defense Atomic Support Agency and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nuclear Weapons Effects written by United States. Office of Civil Defense and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Nuclear Weapons written by Samuel Glasstone and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Nuclear Weapons written by United States. Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Combined Thermal blast Effects of a Nuclear Burst written by Reynold A. Atlas and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strength properties of aluminum in response to the synergistic effects of thermal radiation and blast from a nuclear detonation were investigated in cooperation with the Naval Applied Science Laboratories (NASL). The purpose of the program was to obtain data to analyze the vulnerability of aircraft. A test plan was developed, test procedures established, and limited data obtained. (Author).
Download or read book Nuclear Explosion Effects on Structures and Protective Construction written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Nuclear Weapons written by Armed Forces Special Weapons Project (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cumulative Thermal Effects in a Multiburst Scenario written by Barbara A. Hall and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis sought to develop a computer program to model the cumulative effects of nuclear fireball thermal radiation. The scenario studied was the Peacekeeper Dense Pack missile system. The missile field was subjected to walk attack of 2 MT weapons every two seconds. Aiming error of the incoming RV was modeled using a 10-cell CEP area around the designated ground zero, and the probability of damage due to an RV was calculated using a cumulative log- normal distribution function. To model the missile skin temperature rise, an energy balance was made over a unit area of skin surface and then solved using the thin skin approximation and finite differences. The maximum temperature reached was used to calculate the probability of damage to the missile skin. The amount of thermal radiation emitted from each burst independently. Cumulative thermal effects thus proved to have a greater region of no survival than noncumulative thermal effects and also blast effects.
Download or read book Blast Wave written by Hans Albrecht Bethe and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this report the general phenomena connected with a blast wave in air will be discussed. The particular features of the blast wave produced by a nuclear explosion will be emphasized, but many of the developments in this volume will apply generally to blast waves produced by any type of explosion. In this introductory chapter we shall try to give a general idea of the various phenomena occurring in a blast wave in air, of their interrelation and their time sequence. In the following chapters the details of the theory will be given, including curves showing the pressure distribution as a function of time and position. We have not Included any detailed discussion of the effects of an atomic bomb other than the blast effect. Cnly a short discussion of other effects is given in Chapter 3. For further discussion, especially on flash burn and radioactivity, reports on the experience in Japan should be consulted.
