Impulse loading resulting from shallow buried explosives in water-saturated sand

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-35

  Grujicic, M ^a   Pandurangan, B ^a   Huang, Y ^a   Cheeseman, B A ^b   Roy, W N ^b   Skaggs, R R ^b  

^a Clemson University   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

AUTODYN; Blast loading; Detonation; Shallow buried mine

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; DETONATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; LOADING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SANDSTONE;

BLAST LOADING; IMPULSE LOADING; SHALLOW BURIED MINES; VERTICAL IMPULSE MEASUREMENT FIXTURE (VIMF);

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 33846894341     PISSN: 14644207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/14644207JMDA96     Document Type: Article

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