DIRECT COURSE Blast Shelter Entranceway and Blast Door Experiments
Report Number: CONF-8305107, p. 14-19
Author(s): Kiger, S. A., Hyde, D. W.
Corporate Author(s): USAE Waterways Experiment Station
Laboratory: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Date of Publication: 1983-07
Pages: 6
DoD Task:
Identifier: This paper is part of a conference proceedings. See ADA132780
Abstract:
The DIRECT COURSE Event is a high-explosive simulation of a 1-kt height-of-burst nuclear weapon. DIRECT COURSE is sponsored by the Defense Nuclear Agency and is scheduled for September 1983 at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. Three entranceway experiments will be fielded, one full size complete with two blast doors to document structural response and loading in the simulated 1-kt blast environment. Also, two 1/10-scale models, one double and one single entrance configuration, will be used to obtain blast pressure data that can be scaled to a 1-Mt blast environment. Results from these experiments will be used to evaluate and improve structural response calculations for the 1-kt environment, and to obtain loading data for a 1-Mt environment. These data will be used to design entranceways and blast doors for the key worker blast shelter.
Author(s): Kiger, S. A., Hyde, D. W.
Corporate Author(s): USAE Waterways Experiment Station
Laboratory: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Date of Publication: 1983-07
Pages: 6
DoD Task:
Identifier: This paper is part of a conference proceedings. See ADA132780
Abstract:
The DIRECT COURSE Event is a high-explosive simulation of a 1-kt height-of-burst nuclear weapon. DIRECT COURSE is sponsored by the Defense Nuclear Agency and is scheduled for September 1983 at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. Three entranceway experiments will be fielded, one full size complete with two blast doors to document structural response and loading in the simulated 1-kt blast environment. Also, two 1/10-scale models, one double and one single entrance configuration, will be used to obtain blast pressure data that can be scaled to a 1-Mt blast environment. Results from these experiments will be used to evaluate and improve structural response calculations for the 1-kt environment, and to obtain loading data for a 1-Mt environment. These data will be used to design entranceways and blast doors for the key worker blast shelter.