- Author
-
Fassnacht, P. O.
- Title
- Pyrotechnic Hazards Classification and Evaluation Program Test Report Heat Flux Study of Deflagrating Pyrotechnic Munitions.
- Coporate
- General Electric Co., Bay Saint Louis, MI
- Sponsor
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Edgewood Arsenal, MD
- Report
-
GE-MTSD-R-061,
April 16, 1971,
88 p.
- Contract
- NAS8-23524
- Keywords
-
hazards classifications
|
evaluation
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heat flux
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pyrotechnics
|
tests
- Identifiers
- heat flux test performance and results; passive sensor study; heat flux data acquisition system
- Abstract
- The heat flux studies described in this report were performed under a National Aeronautics and Space Administration Contract NAS8-23524, Modification 8, Item No. 8. Three tests had been authorized to investigate whether heat flux measurements may be used as effective hazards evaluation criteria to determine safe quantity distances for pyrotechnics. A "Passive Sensor Study" was conducted simultaneously to investigate their usefulness recording certain events and conditions, e.g., heat attenuation, temperature ranges in the vicinity of a deflagrating pyrotechnic stack, etc. The tests have shown that heat flux measurements can effectively be used to evaluate hazards criteria and that passive sensors are an inexpensive tool to record certain events in the vicinity of deflagrating pyrotechnic stacks.