QUANTITY-DISTANCE CRITERIA FOR EARTH-BERMED AIRCRAFT SHELTERS

THE PROPOSED PROJECT INVOLVES A THOROUGH FEASIBILITY STUDY WHICH WILL RELY HEAVILY ON EXISTING TEST DATA, ANALYSES AND COMPUTER CODES ALREADY APPLICABLE TO THE MEASURE OF QUANTITY-DISTANCE RATIO, AND WHICH WILL LEAD DIRECTLY INTO DETAILED DESIGNS FOR FIELD TESTING FOR PHASE II. SPECIFICALLY, A LITERATURE SEARCH FOR RELATED TEST DATA, ANALYSIS METHODS, AND COMPUTER CODES WILL BE CONDUCTED; RELATED TEST DATA FOR BOTH FULL-SCALE AND MODEL TESTS, ENGINEERING ANALYSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS WILL BE REVIEWED. NEW ANALYSES AND COMPUTER CODES WILL BE DEVELOPED OR MODIFIED TO PREDICT THE EFFECTS OF BERMING AIRCRAFT SHELTERS ON THE BLAST AND DEBRIS HAZARDS WHICH DETERMINE QUANTITY-DISTANCE CRITERIA. THESE ANALYTIC OR COMPUTER CODE PREDICITONS OF BLAST AND DEBRIS HAZARDS WILL BE COMPARED WITH EXISTING FULL-SCALE AND MODEL-SCALE TEST DATA, AND THEN DETAIL PLANNING OF MODEL-SCALE TESTS WILL BE CONDUCTED.