Measured parameters of the airblast loading of generic models from shock tube tests and comparison with SHARC-code calculations.

The paper deals with methods for determining the loading functions of obstacles hit by blastwaves. Such functions provide the input data of structural response codes in order to perform vulnerability analyses of the objects. Loading functions can be obtained experimentally on the basis of pressure measurements using gages. They also result from code calculations, a technique applied recently. Numerical simulations using the code SHARC will be presented in the paper and partly compared to experimental data available, thus validating the code. Comparisons with the von Neumann Theory which can be used for an approximate calculation of loading functions are given additionally.