The Response of Hypothetical Missile Transport Equipment to Nuclear Blast

W. R. Elswick

ResearchPublished 1958

An attempt to analyze the loading and response of a structure when it is subjected to overturning by the blast of an atomic explosion, and to present some results for mobile equipment which may be typical of mobile ballistic missile equipment. The study assumes that the structure is rigid and free to rotate about the fixed downwind wheel line, that the drag coefficient and drag area are constant, and that the diffraction load rises abruptly with the arrival of the shock front and decays linearly to zero in the time required for the shock front to traverse a distance equal to one and one-half times the vehicle height.

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