SZ/OEMU/21/3/30-31 - Blast Pressure and Mechanical Shock on a Gunner Inside a Pill-Box Due to Near Explosions of 66 2/3 [two thirds] 3-lb Charges of Polar Ammon Gelignite. Tests at Netheravon on 12th December 1941, January 1942

Reference code

SZ/OEMU/21/3/30-31

Level of description

Item

Title

Blast Pressure and Mechanical Shock on a Gunner Inside a Pill-Box Due to Near Explosions of 66 2/3 [two thirds] 3-lb Charges of Polar Ammon Gelignite. Tests at Netheravon on 12th December 1941, January 1942

Date/s

1942

Quantity & Format

3 leaves

Subject

Blast pressure
Shock
Explosions -- Physiological effect -- In pillboxes
Mannequins (figures) in experiments
Medical Research Council

Creator

Road Research Laboratory

Scope and content

MRC/2/GC/CGG

Report of tests carried out for the MRC. Describes the equipment used and the arrangement of the test site, and lists the pressures measured by gauges on various parts of a dummy's anatomy at different distances from the explosion. Includes a plan of the test site.

Two copies. [SZ/OEMU/21/3/31] includes the text of SZ's comments on the paper. See [SZ/OEMU/21/3/32-36].

SZ - Zuckerman Archive
- SZ/OEMU - Ministry of Home Security, Oxford Extra-Mural Unit
  - SZ/OEMU/21 - [OEMU. Medical Research Council Military Personnel Research Committee, Sub-Committee on Weapons (Biological Assay)]
    - SZ/OEMU/21/3 - [OEMU. MRC Sub-Committee on Weapons. Reports and Memoranda]
      - SZ/OEMU/21/3/30-31 - Blast Pressure and Mechanical Shock on a Gunner Inside a Pill-Box Due to Near Explosions of 66 2/3 [two thirds] 3-lb Charges of Polar Ammon Gelignite. Tests at Netheravon on 12th December 1941, January 1942

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