Shock tube studies of the effects of sharp-rising, long-duration overpressures on biological systems /
by D.R. Richmond [and others].
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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Albuquerque, New Mexico : Lovelace Foundation for Medical Education and Research, March 10, 1959.
- Summary
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Shock tubes have been used successfully by a number of investigators to study the biological effects of variations in environmental pressures (1,2,3). Recently an unusually versatile laboratory pressurization source became available with the capability of consistently reproducing a wide variety of pressure-time phenomena of durations equal to and well beyond those associated with the detonation of nuclear devices (4). Thus it became possible to supplement costly full-scale field research in blast biology carried out at the Nevada Test Site (5,6) by using an economical yet realistic laboratory tool. In one exploratory study employing pressure pulses of 5 to 10 sec duration wherein the times to max overpressure and the magnitudes of the overpressures were varied, a relatively high tolerance of biological media to pressures well over 150 psi was demonstrated (7). In contrast, the present paper will describe the relatively high biological susceptibility to long duration overpressures in which the pressure rises occurred in single and double fast-rising steps.
- Note
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"Presented at the Third Shock Tube Symposium, sponsored by the Air Force Special Weapons Center, KAFB, N.M., Fort Monroe, Virginia, March 9-11, 1959."
"Progress report AEC contract No. AT(29-1)-1242."
Misc. No.: TID-6056.
- Physical Description
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30 pages :
illustrations ;
27 cm
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