Designing Facilities to Resist Nuclear Weapons Effects Hardness VerificationHeadquarters, Department of the Army, 1984 - Blast effect |
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20t TNT 50 TABLE air entrainment air-entrainment systems Albuquerque analysis array assessment binomial distribution Blast Load blast valve burst calculations cavity components conducted confidence interval Corps of Engineers crater-induced debris detona detonation DIHEST Displacement distribution Duration Dynamic Pressure elements EMP E-Field entrainment system environment equations equipment evaluate explosive facility failure modes fault tree field tests Figure free-field ft dia ft long full-scale GE-TEMPO GRABS ground motion ground shock hardness verification HEST test hypothesis Kirtland AFB ments MIGHTY EPIC Monte Carlo Monte Carlo method nuclear weapon effects Oscillograph overpressure parameters peak performed Primacord probability procedure random random variable range resistance response sample shock tube soil specified spherical statistical structures subsystem surface survivability TABLE A-2 Test section Thermal Thermal Radiation Time-dependent measurements tion transfer functions U.S. Army Corps uncertainties variables velocity verification analyst wave weapon-effect loads
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