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Science and Technology of Energetic Materials

Vol.63, No.2 (2002)

Letter

Attenuation of blast waves by a water column
Dongjoon Kim, Yoshio Nakayama, Tomoharu Matsumura, Ken Okada, Atsumi Miyake, Terushige Ogawa, and Masatake Yoshida
p.83-85

Abstract

This paper describes the attenuation of a blast wave by a water column. After a water column had been generated by a previous under water explosion, a blast wave was caused by the detonation of a high explosive. The blast pressre passing through the water column were measured using piezoelectric gauges. The result showed that peak overpressure and scaled impulse were reduced by about 90 % and 80 %, respectively. It was concluded that the water column effectively attenuated the blast waves.

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