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- From: m@crito.stanford.edu (M Carling)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: explosives question
- Message-ID: <9211180605.AA28339@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 15:09:33 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
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- In article <--fqrs+@dixie.com> jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
- # Some figures for
- # the destruction of various types of construction:
- #
- # Frame house 0.5-1 psi
- # Typical commercial construction 3 psi
- # Reenforced concrete construction >5 psi.
- #
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- The silos the Soviets built for the SS-18s are estimated to be capable of
- withstanding blast overpressures up to 8000 psi.
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- M Carling
- The Hoover Institution
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