- Author
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Pape, R.
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Waterman, T. E.
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Napadensky, H.
- Title
- Fire Hazards of Combustible Ammunition in Storage or Transport.
- Coporate
- IIT Research Inst., Chicago, IL
- Book or Conf
- Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board. Explosives Safety Seminar, 20th. Volume 1. August 24-26, 1982.,
Norfolk, VA,
611-628 p.,
1982
- Keywords
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fire hazards
- Abstract
- The initial phase of work has been completed toward development of a standard test procedure to characterize the fire hazards of Class 1.3 and 1.4 munitions items, that is items that are primarily a fire hazard. Preliminary experiments considered fire damage or spread of fire to occur by radiant heat transfer from the flame or fireball, by direct flame impingement, or by firebrands (hot or burning objects). A "fast" burning propellant (a ball powder), a "slow" burning propellant (M1), an incendiary (ALA17 candles), a 2.75 inch rocket motors were used to identify the dominant phenomena and scaling relations, and to select the most promising instrumentation. Subsequent work will emphasize larger sample sizes to validate scaling relations and identify criteria for minimum realistic test size.