Speaker
Milton Garces
(Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Nuclear Arms Control Technology Program)
Description
It is a daunting task to frame the fearful symmetry of a blast. Properties and defining characteristics of theoretical source pressure functions representative of detonations and deflagrations are considered, and criteria for defining reference blast pulses are discussed. A new impulse-balanced blast pulse is proposed as a reference signature for propagation model initialization, the design of detection and feature extraction algorithms, yield uncertainty quantification, and transfer function evaluations.
Primary author
Milton Garces
(Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Nuclear Arms Control Technology Program)
