SHOCK TRANSMISSION THROUGH ICE AND SNOW.

• Main Author: Joachim,Charles E.
• Other Authors: ARMY ENGINEER WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION VICKSBURG MISS
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1967
• Subjects: Snow; Ice and Permafrost; Explosions; (*SHOCK WAVES; *WAVE PROPAGATION); (*EXPLOSIVES; *BLAST); ICE; GREENLAND; TNT; DETONATIONS; ATTENUATION; ACCELERATION; Gage; Greenland; Ice; Ice cap; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0659774; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0659774

During the summer of 1963, twenty-six 32-pound and twenty-one 10-pound spherical TNT charges were detonated at depths varying from 9.5 feet below to 9.5 feet above the snow surface near Camp Century on the Greenland Ice Cap. Airblast pressure-time measurements were made to determine pressure loading...