MAKE A MEME View Large Image NTS - Industrial Buildings.jpg One of the industrial buildings motels shortly after it was exposed to the 1953 Encore test These were built to test various construction techniques and materials for Blast Effects Upon Curtain Walls and ...
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Keywords: NTS - Industrial Buildings.jpg One of the industrial buildings motels shortly after it was exposed to the 1953 Encore test These were built to test various construction techniques and materials for Blast Effects Upon Curtain Walls and Partitions of Masonry and other Materials Eight-inch and twelve-inch reinforced and unreinforced concrete and cinder block panels were used to build the walls which were designed to survive overpressures of 1 to 5 pounds per square inch The front test walls west were strung with gauges and measured an overpressure of 20 pounds per square inch from the tests In addition standard commercial materials were used to build doors Anti-blast valves round objects on wall were tested for shelter ventilation openings The buildings were built for the May 8 1953 Encore test and were later modified for the June 24 1957 Priscilla test Nevada Test Site Guide http //www nv energy gov/library/publications/historical/DOENV_715_Rev1 pdf DOE/NV-715 Federal Government of the United States PD-USGov Plumbbob Priscilla Upshot-Knothole Encore
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