Open AccessFREE AIR PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS
Author(s) -
W.J. Howard,
R.D. Jones
Publication year - 1952
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/4166367
Subject(s) - overpressure , interferometry , atmospheric pressure , pressure measurement , environmental science , physics , meteorology , materials science , optics , nuclear physics
Indenter gages, Wiancko gages, and interferometer gages were used to measure air overpressure vs time at essentially ground level stations for both the surface (S) and undprground (U) atomic explosions. For the S Burst several instruments were placed on a line extending from an overpressure region of 13 psi to a region of less than one psi. The air measurements for the U Burst ranged from 32 to 2 psi. (D. L.G.