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Scaling Blast Parameters

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Blast Waves

Part of the book series: Shock Wave and High Pressure Phenomena ((SHOCKWAVE))

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It is often useful to be able to scale the results from one experiment to a similar experiment having a different yield. Such scaling allows the pressure or impulse from one experiment to be used to predict the pressure from another or to compare the results of two different experiments.

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Needham, C.E. (2010). Scaling Blast Parameters. In: Blast Waves. Shock Wave and High Pressure Phenomena. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05288-0_12

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