Abstract
Pressure pulse tests were conducted with both solid and flexible test sections in a test vessel filled with room temperature water. Pressure pulses of magnitude up to 1150 psid and durations from 6 to 47 msec were generated with a drop hammer and piston pulse generator. FLASH-34 calculations show good agreement with the test data. In particular, FLASH-34 adequately predicts the decrease in peak pressure and the increase in pulse duration due to the presence of a flexible test section. Both test data and FLASH-34 calculations showed the structural response to be approximately quasistatic, except for slight departures from quasistatic response for the most rapid pressure pulses. All of the structural responses were in the elastic range.
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