Establishment of Safety Design Criteria for Use in Engineering of Explosive Facilities and Operations

摘要

This report presents a summary of activities from January-December 1965 on the supporting studies to establish a Safety Design Criteria Program under the technical management of Picatinny Arsenal. Work performed in these areas is described: A model scale slab test program (1/3 and 1/10 scale) to investigate the response of reinforced concrete to blast loads; a model scale bay test program to evaluate the explosive capacity of a bay structure and to establish the validity of scaling; a 1/3 scale modified C-13 cubicle test to demonstrate the use of new design and construction techniques; a full-scale test program to complete the investigation for compartmenting igloos for safe storage of small weapons, and development of new impulse curves in a cubicle type structure.