Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Presentation Date
13 Mar 1991, 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Abstract
The paper presents an experimental study conducted under laboratory conditions on the measurement of the pressure waves transmitted into water that are radiated from following the detonation of an explosive charge buried in a block. In order to simulate full scale blasting operations at sea, small explosive charge of 1.8g PETN was buried in a concrete block and detonated under water. Information concerning the test set-up, instrumentation, type of explosives used, scaling factor and measurement of pressure is briefly described. The paper also presents analysis of the test results in the form of FFT’s and Transfer functions and details of its importance to practical blasting operations at sea using buried explosive charges.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1991 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Thandavamoorthy, T. S., "A Study of Blast Pressure from Underwater Borehole Blasting" (1991). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. 2.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/02icrageesd/session11/2
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A Study of Blast Pressure from Underwater Borehole Blasting
St. Louis, Missouri
The paper presents an experimental study conducted under laboratory conditions on the measurement of the pressure waves transmitted into water that are radiated from following the detonation of an explosive charge buried in a block. In order to simulate full scale blasting operations at sea, small explosive charge of 1.8g PETN was buried in a concrete block and detonated under water. Information concerning the test set-up, instrumentation, type of explosives used, scaling factor and measurement of pressure is briefly described. The paper also presents analysis of the test results in the form of FFT’s and Transfer functions and details of its importance to practical blasting operations at sea using buried explosive charges.
