| High Performance Magazine Certification Test No. 3: Planning and Results |
Aug 1998 |
39 pages |
| Authors:
Robert N Murtha; NAVAL FACILITIES ENGINEERING SERVICE CENTER PORT HUENEME CA
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 | The Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center (NFESC) is developing a new ordnance storage magazine, the High Performance Magazine (HPM). The HPM is a partially buried, earthbermed, 2-story, box-shaped structure. The most important factor in the improved performance of the HPM is the reduction in the Maximum Credible Event (MCE) to a detonation, explosion, or fire involving a small fraction of the total quantity of explosives stored in the HPM. This ... |
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| High Performance Magazine Certification Test of Nonpropagation Walls |
Aug-1996 |
35 pages |
| Authors:
Robert N Murtha; Carl Halsey; Edward M Jacobs; NAVAL FACILITIES ENGINEERING SERVICE CENTER PORT HUENEME CA
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| The Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center (NFESC) is developing a new magazine design, named the High Performance (HP) Magazine, for storage of ordnance. The HP Magazine is a partially buried, earth-bermed, 2-story, box-shaped structure. The HP Magazine reduces by at least 80 percent the land encumbered by Explosives Safety Quantity Distance (ESQD) arcs designed to protect people and property from effects of an accidental explosion. The most important factor in ... |
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| Tests and Analysis for Safe Distances from High Performance Magazine Overpressure and Debris |
Aug-1994 |
46 pages |
| Authors:
Robert N Murtha; NAVAL FACILITIES ENGINEERING SERVICE CENTER PORT HUENEME CA
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| The High Performance (HP) Magazine is an ordnance storage concept that will reduce the land encumbered by ESQD (Explosives Safety Quantity Distance) arcs and improve the efficiency of weapons handling operations. The HP Magazine uses a reinforced concrete roof with soil cover to mitigate the fragment and debris hazard. The mass from thicker than normal soil cover ( 2 feet) controls fragment and debris distances. Tunnel exits are used to ... |
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| Small-Scale High Performance Magazine Roof and Soil Cover Feasibility Test Results |
Aug 1992 |
42 pages |
| Authors:
Robert N Murtha; NAVAL CIVIL ENGINEERING LAB PORT HUENEME CA
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| The High Performance (HP) Magazine concept consists of an earth-covered box structure with interior cells where munitions are stored. The cells are designed to prevent sympathetic detonation between cells, thereby limiting the Maximum Credible Event (MCE) to the Net Explosive Weight (NEW) stored in any cell. The reinforced concrete box structure and soil cover and designed to limit the safe distance for the MCE from blast, fragment, and debris outside ... |
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