Norway/United States Design Protective Aircraft Shelter (PAS) Quantity-Distance Program 1/3-Scale Test Series. Volume 3. Appendix B: PAS-3

The objective of the Combined Norwegian/U.S. Aircraft Shelter Quantity-Distance Program was to establish an experimental database that could be used to develop explosives safety criteria for a Norwegian-designed aircraft shelter. These shelters have been constructed at various bases in Europe and are used by U.S. and Norwegian air forces. The current criteria for explosives storage in aircraft shelters are based largely on U.S. aircraft shelter designs, which differ significantly in structural details from the Norwegian version. The program included four tests of 1/3-scale models of the Norwegian shelter. Charges varying from 3.7 to 100 kg of C-4 explosive were detonated inside the model shelters. Airblast pressures were measured in the interior and exterior areas surrounding the models. High-speed photography and accelerometers were used to determine structural debris trajectories and velocities. The final distribution of structural debris in the areas surrounding the models was also recorded. Volume I of this report presents a detailed discussion of the results of each test with selected experimental data. Volumes II through V provide a complete set of the experimental data gathered in each of the test events. These data will be provided to those U.S., Norwegian, and NATO agencies responsible for establishing explosives storage safety criteria for the Norwegian aircraft shelter.
See also Volume 4, AD-A271 433.