SciPan 4: Program Description and Test Results

• Main Authors: Conway, Robert T., Tatom, John W., Swisdak, Jr, Michael M.
• Other Authors: NAVAL FACILITIES ENGINEERING COMMAND PORT HUENEME CA ENGINEERING SERVICE CENTER
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Numerical Mathematics; Safety Engineering; Ammunition and Explosives; *TEST AND EVALUATION; *NUCLEAR WEAPON DEBRIS; FRAGMENTATION; EXPLOSIVES; AMMUNITION FRAGMENTS; SAFETY; ELECTRON ACCEPTORS; BLAST; REINFORCED CONCRETE; SYMPOSIA; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL PREDICTION; BRIEFING CHARTS; PROJECT ESKIMORE; QD(QUANTITY DISTANCE); ESQD(EXPLOSIVES SAFETY QUANTITY DISTANCE); eskimo*
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA532254; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA532254

As part of the U.S. Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board (DDESB) Project ESKIMORE, the U.S. has conducted the fourth test in its SciPan test series, which consists of full-scale donor/acceptor trials examining debris generation and acceptor response. The SciPan 1 and 2 tests and results were reported at the 2004 DDESB Seminar. SciPan 3 was reported on at the 2006 DDESB Seminar. The overall SciPan program is described, with emphasis on the debris generation results from SciPan 4. This event, which was conducted in August 2008 at Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division, China Lake, CA, was a 1,000 kg (2,205 lb) detonation of non-fragmenting munitions inside a typical reinforced concrete operating building. Results from this test including airblast effects, debris densities patterns, and fragmentation characteristics are presented. Comparisons of debris density as a function of azimuth and distance are made with analytical debris prediction models, as well as with traditional Quantity-Distance criteria. See also ADM002313. Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board Seminar (34th) held in Portland, Oregon on 13-15 July 2010. Document contains briefing charts. The original document contains color images.