Development and analysis of a leak-based blast attenuator and scaling laws for primary blast peak overpressure for a large caliber muzzle-loaded cannon
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Authors
Carson, Robert Andrew
Issue Date
2014-12
Type
Electronic thesis
Thesis
Thesis
Language
ENG
Keywords
Aeronautical engineering
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Abstract
In the last part of this thesis, we focused on the baseline and CLM-A1 configurations in order to develop scaling laws for the primary blast peak overpressure. Two different power-law scaling techniques were considered. In the first power-law, scaling parameters were defined from the muzzle center. The second power-law scaling was defined based on the blast center. The muzzle center based power-law has been used in the past while the blast center based power-law is a newly developed scaling law in this thesis. For the baseline configuration, both scaling laws performed well and for many locations absolute difference was below 10%. For the CLM-A1 configuration, blast center based power-law predictions were better than those from the muzzle center based power-law and showed a better overall correlation with the ALE3D predictions
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December 2014
School of Engineering
School of Engineering
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Publisher
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY