Citation

Arrowsmith S, Bowman D. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 2017; 141(6): EL519.

Affiliation

Sandia National Laboratories, P. O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185, USA sjarrow@sandia.gov, dbowma@sandia.gov.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, American Institute of Physics)

DOI

10.1121/1.4984121

PMID

28618805

PMCID

PMC5459613

Abstract

A method for estimating the yield of explosions from shock-wave and acoustic-wave measurements is presented. The method exploits full waveforms by comparing pressure measurements against an empirical stack of prior observations using scaling laws. The approach can be applied to measurements across a wide-range of source-to-receiver distances. The method is applied to data from two explosion experiments in different regions, leading to mean relative errors in yield estimates of 0.13 using prior data from the same region, and 0.2 when applied to a new region.

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