ESTIMATE OF MAN'S TOLERANCE TO THE DIRECT EFFECTS OF AIR BLAST

Tolerance indices were determined, allowing for the effects of body mass, for thirteen mammalian species using the results of experiments in which animals were exposed near a normally reflecting surface to shocked blast waves whose durations ranged from 0.24 to 400 msec. A general equation was developed for expressing the interrelations between overpressure, duration of the blast wave, body mass, and probability of survival.