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A History of Research and a Review of Recent Developments

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Subject index<br />

Aircraft damage 207<br />

Artillery fuse 6<br />

Ball crusher gauge xxii<br />

Ballistic pendulum xxi<br />

Black powder 2<br />

Blast gauges 119–23<br />

Blast loads in tunnels <strong>and</strong> shafts 102<br />

Blast simulation 123–34<br />

Box girders 205<br />

Brickwalls 185–8<br />

Civil bridges 191–206<br />

Concentrated external loading 91<br />

Concentrated loads on underwater<br />

structures 100<br />

Confined explosions in vented <strong>and</strong><br />

unvented chambers 111<br />

Craters 40<br />

Damage classification 197<br />

Decay <strong>of</strong> overpressure 10<br />

Deck slabs 203<br />

Demolition xxiv<br />

Detonation in free air 8<br />

Development <strong>of</strong> explosives 4–6<br />

Dynamic penetration 141<br />

Dynamic pressure 23<br />

Equivalent pressures 55<br />

Explosion characteristics<br />

above-ground explosion 30<br />

below-ground explosion 34<br />

dust explosion 60–3<br />

235<br />

gas explosion 63<br />

ground-burst explosion 27<br />

liquid-propellant explosion 59<br />

nuclear explosion 6<br />

nuclear explosion (underground) 39<br />

underwater explosion 45<br />

vapour cloud explosion 66<br />

Explosion properties <strong>of</strong> dusts, powders,<br />

<strong>and</strong> particles 64<br />

Explosions in civil buildings 183<br />

Flame propagation 66<br />

Fragmentation 174<br />

Fuel-air explosive 4<br />

Gas bubbles 49<br />

Ground shock 95<br />

Guided bombs 177<br />

Gunpowder 1<br />

High-velocity impact xxvi<br />

Hull blisters xix<br />

Initial nuclear radiation 86<br />

Loading load factors 223<br />

load/time relationships 74<br />

loads on underground structures 80<br />

loads on underwater structures 86<br />

Longitudinal girders 204<br />

Mach stem 30<br />

Military delivery systems 176

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