NAVDOCKS P-290  Studies in Atomic Defense Engineering (1962)

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Department of the Navy, Bureau of Yards and Docks. NAVDOCKS P-290  Studies in Atomic Defense Engineering (Revised 1962); 318+ pages, 100+illus.  Price 28.00 {Item No.4063} [7 Copyrighted articles not included]

• 1.  Failure Criteria as Applied to Atomic Defense Engineering. by LCDR J.G.Hammer and LT A.F.Dill; 3 pages, x illus., Biblio.  Price .50 {Item No.22351}
• 2.  Structural Effects of Atomic Blast. by CDR Arthur B.Chilton; 6 pages, 9 illus., Biblio.  Price .50 {Item No22352} [Details of Damage to Ten Houses, Utilities at Nevada Test Site are Covered in Reports Including: Houses, Electric Utilities, Gas Utilities, Emergency Vehicles, Miscellaneous Effects, Monitoring techniques] [30 kt Blast, Operation Teapot]
• 3.  Evaluation of Incendiary Effects. by CDR L.N.Saunders, Jr.; 4 pages, Biblio.  Price .50 {Item No.22353}[Evaluating the Fire Harzard, Radiation Shielding, Station Housekeeping Standards, Station Planning]
• 4.  Evaluation of Radioactive Fallout Hazard. by CDR L.N.Saunders, Jr.; 4 pages, 3 illus., Biblio.  Price .50 {Item No.22354}[Nature of Fallout, Factors Covering Shelter Design, Radiation Levels, Radiation Dose, Shielding, Summary, References, Recommending Reading]
• 5.  Biological Effects. by CDR L.N.Saunders, Jr.; 3 pages, Biblio.  Price .50 {Item No.22355} [Blast Effects, Initial Nuclear Radiation, Residual Nuclear Radiation, Thermal Effects]
• 6.  Improvement of Conventional Designs to Resist Blast Loadings. by LCDR J.G.Hammer and LT A.F.Dill ; 4 pages, Biblio.  Price .50 {Item No.22356}[Loadings, Structural Adequacy, Recommendations: Reinforced Concrete, Steel Construction, Wall Construction]
• 7.  Dynamic Behavior of Simple Structures (Part I). by LCDR J.G.Hammer, LT A.F.Dill; 6 pages, 4 illus., Biblio.  Price .50 {Item No.22357} Difference Between Static and Dynamic Problem, Blast Loading, Fundamental Mode Theory, The Equivalent Model, Analysis of the Model]
• 8.  Dynamic Behavior of Simple Structures (Part II). by LCDR J.G.Hammer, LT A.F.Dill ; 9 pages, 8 illus., Biblio. Price .50 {Item No.22358} [Preliminary Considerations, Beam and Model Properties, Direct Analytical Method, Numerical Method, Curves or Charts, Graphical Procedures, Tabulation for Numerical Method, Energy Methods, Discussion]
• 9.  Structural Response to Atomic Blast. by CDR Arthur B.Chilton; 7 pages, 6 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.22359}[Elementary Vibration Theory, When Applied with Engineering Analysis, Provides insight into Blast Effect] [Introduction, An Idealized Blast Pulse, Very Short Blast Pulses, Effect of Pulse Rise Time, Discussion, Solution to Sample Problem]
• 10.  Reinforced Concrete Beam Behavior Under Dynamic Blast Loadings. by CDR Arthur B.Chilton; 4 pages, 4 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.22360}[An Alternate Approach to Amirikian's Method]
• 11.  Strength of Materials Under Dynamic Loading. by LCDR J.G.Hammer and LT A.F.Dill; 3 pages, 4 illus., Biblio.  Price .50 {Item No.22361} [Recommended Steel Design Stresses]
• 12.  Resistance of Glass Windows to Atomic Blast. by CDR Arthur B.Chilton; 3 pages, 1 illus., Biblio.  Price .50 {Item No.22362} [Calculation of Critical Blast Pressure, Effects of Glass Frames & Mounting]
• 13.  Personnel Protective Structures. by LCDR J.G.Hammer, LT A.F.Dill; 5 pages, Biblio.  Price .50 {Item No.22363} [Personnel Protective Shelters, Characteristics of Potential Shelters Areas, Locations for Potential Shelter Areas, Recommended Measures to Improve Areas as Personnel Shelters]
• 14.  Emergency Shelters for Atomic Warfare Protection. by Erwin E.Shalowitz; 7 pages, 3 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.22364} [Atomic Warfare Protection Criteria for Shelters: General Considerations, Cover Support, Revetment, Entrance Design. Specific Emergency Shelter Types: Opening and Covered Trenches, Corrugated Steel Sections, Corps of Engineers' Post, Cap, and Stringer Construction]
• 15.  Concrete as a Gamma Radiation Shield. by CDR Arthur B.Chilton; 2 pages, 1 illus., Biblio. Price .50 {Item No.22365}
• 16.  Shielding of Gamma Rays Obliquely Incident Upon Concrete Walls. by CDR Arthur B.Chilton; 2 pages, 2 illus., Biblio.  Price .50 {Item No.22366}
• 17.  Decontamination Principles and Techniques in Radiological Recovery. by CDR Arthur B.Chilton; 6 pages, 1 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.22367}[Pre-Attack Phase, Attack Phase, Recovery Phase, Decontamination Problem, Principles and Techniques (7 techniques evaluated)]
• 18.  Graphical Solution of Target Analysis Probability Problems. by LCDR H.L.Murphy; 5 pages, 3 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.22368}
• 19.  Canceled by Chapter 56
• 20.  Absorption of Concrete of X-Rays and Gamma-Rays (Part I). by B.E.Foster; 6 pages, Biblio. [Not available (Copyrighted)] [Synopsis, Introduction, Production and Characteristics of X-Rays, Sources and Characteristics of Gamma Rays, Attentuation of X-Rays and y-Rays, Photoelectric Absorption, Compton Scattering and Absorption, Absorption by Electron Pair Production, Secondary Effects, Relation of Attenuation to Barrier Thickness, Broad, Broad Beam vs.Narrow Beam Conditions] 
• 21.  Absorption of Concrete of X-Rays and Gamma-Rays (Part II). by B.E.Foster; 7 pages, 7 illus., Biblio. [Not available (Copyrighted)] [Experimental Data, Gamma Rays, Design of Concrete Barriers, Selection of Barrier Materials, Summary, Acknowledgement]
• 22.  Fallout Radiation Protection Afforded by Below-Ground Structures. by CDR Arthur B.Chilton; 6 pages, 5 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.22369}[Attenuation Calculations, Practical Considerations]
• 23.  Designing for Atomic Blast Protection. by Nathan M.Newmark; 12 pages  Price 1.00 {Item No.22370}[Introduciton: General Nature of Problem, The Influence of Thermonuclear Bombs on Blast Resistant Design, General Concepts, Blast and Loading Phenomenia, Pressures on Resistant Structures, Pressures on Open Structures, Effect of Durantion of Loading, Basis of Blast Resistant Design, Outline of Design Procedure, Alternative Design Loads for Shell or Domb Structures, Alternative Design Loads for Arches, Simple Relations for Reinforced Concrete: Assumption Made, Notation, Empirical Relations for Reinforced Concrete Beams, Simply Supported Beams, Fixed of Continuous Beams, The Future of Blast Resistant Design, plus To the Editior comments by CAPT Arthur B.Chiton]
• 24.  Rapid Design for Dynamically Loaded, Fixed-Fed, Reinforced Concrete Beam. by LT Charles Curione; 6 pages, 5 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.22371}
• 25.  Water and the Atom. by Philip W.Brewer; 5 pages, 1 illus., Biblio. Price .50 {Item No.22372} [Nuclear Weapon Contamination, Peacetime Nuclear Waste Disposal, Permissible Radioactivity Levels, Measurement of Radioactivitiy, Efficiency of Treatment Methods, Training Courses] 
• 26.  Passive Defense: Designing Entrances for Protective Shelters. by CDR L.N.Saunders; 5 pages, 7 illus., Biblio.  Price .50 {Item No.22373} [Introduction, Factors Influencing Entrance Design, Experimental Data, 10 Psi Shelters, 25 Psi Shelters, 50 Psi Shelters, General Comments] 
• 27.  Manholes Subjected to Nuclear Blast. by LT A.F.Dill; 1 page  Price .50 {Item No.22374}
• 28.  Fallout Protection Afforded by Standard Enlisted Men's Barracks; 21 pages, 8 illus., Biblio  Price 3.00 {Item No22375} [NRL Report 4886] [Gamma Radiation from Fallout, Method of Calculation of Radiation Shielding of Present Barracks, Possible Improvements in Radiation Shielding of Barracks, Shielding of a Basement Shelter, Reduction of Dose by Decontamination, Conclusions and Recommendations, Gamma Radiation from a Plane Source, Off Center Dose and Other Special Cases, Attenuation of Gamma Radiation by Concrete, Dose Rate and Accumulated Dose]
• 29.  Radiological Decontamination Tests. by LT E.E.Shalowitz, and LTJG W.F.Clover; 3 pages, 5 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.22376}
• 30.  European Protective Shelters. by LT Charles Curione; 2 pages, 2 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.22377}
• 31.  Blast Pressure Leakage into Closed Structures through Small Openings. by CAPT Arthur B.Chilton; 2 pages, Biblio. Price .50 {Item No.22378}
• 32.  Passive Defense: New BuDocks Shelter Developments. by CDR H.L.Murphy; 2 pages, 4 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.22379}
• 33.  Introduction to Disaster Protective Psychology (Part I). by Walmer E.Strope; 6 pages, 3 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.22380}
• 34.  Introduction to Disaster Protective Psychology (Part II). by Walmer E.Strope ; 5 pages, 3 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.22381}
• 35.  Disaster Control and Protective Construction. by CDR W.J.Christensen; 4 pages  Price .50 {Item No.22382}
• 36.  Vulnerability of Underground Protective Construction. by CDR W.J.Christensen ; 10 pages, 10 illus, Biblio. Price 1.00 {Item No.22383}[Atomic Explosive Effects - Relative Importance, Air Blast and Air Blast Damage, Ground Shock and Ground Shock Damage, Survival Probability, The Cost, Conclusions]
• 37.  Air Blast Induced Ground Shock. by CDR W.J.Christensen; 6 pages, 6 illus., Biblio.  Price 1.00 {Item No.22384} [Background Information, Ground Shock Production, Earth Stress, Top Loading on Underground Structure, Side Loading, Bottom Loading, Acceleration, Equipment Mounting, Displacement, Conclusions]
• 38.  Physiological Aspects of Gamma and X-Radiation. by CDR Wayne J.Christensen; 6 pages  Price 1.00 {Item No.22385} [History, Interaction with Matter, Dose, Interaction with Biological Systems, Observed Effects in the Cell, Chronic vs Acute Exposure, Permissible Dosage, Approximate Dosages from Diagnostic Exposures, Protective Measures or Safety Precautions, Summary]
• 39.  A New Blast-Closure Device for Personnel Protective Shelters. by LCDR W.J.Francy ; 5 pages, 7 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.22386} [For Air vents]
• 40.  Radiological Contamination of Water Supply Systems. by CDR W.M.McLellan; 8 pages, Biblio.  Price 1.00 {Item No.22387} [Introduction, Radioactive Materials and Measurements, Fallout Extent, Fallout Characteristics, Danger to Humans, Past Experience with Contamination, Purification Processes, Decontamination Processes for Physical Facilities, Effects on Water Supply System, Preventive Measures, Recovery Measures, Summary]
• 41.  Cost Guide for Protective Construction. by LCDR Charles Curoine; 5 pages, 2 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.22388} [Introduction, Factors Affecting Costs, Entrance Cost, Mechanical Equipment, Level of Protection, Mission of Structure, Soil Medium, Discussion, Summary]
• 42.  Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Beam. by J.R.Allgood; 7 pages, 2 illus. Biblio.  Price 1.00 {Item No.22389}
• 43.  Influence of Mass on the Response of Beams to Blast Loads. by J.R.Allgood; 3 pages, 2 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.22390}
• 44.  Underwater Phenomena. by LCDR H.E.Stephans; 7 pages, 5 illus., Biblio.  Price .50 {Item No.22391} [As related to explosions]
• 45.  Sheart Wall Structure. by ENS Gifford H.Albright; 7 pages, 3 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.22392}
• 46.  Effect of Blast Acceleration Forces on Personnel within Shelters. by LT G.H.Albright and LT A.F.Dill; 6 pages, 3 illus., Biblio. Price .50 {Item No.22393}
• 47.  Influence of Grade of Steel on Blast Resistence of Reinforced Concrete Beams. by W.A.Shaw and J.R.Allgood; 10 pages, 10 illus., Biblio.  Price 1.00 {Item No.22394}
• 48.  AEC Group Shelter. by AEC Facilities Division; 22 pages, 8 illus.  Price 3.00 {Item No.22395} [Excellant large (100 person) shelter design]
• 49.  Shelters for Survival. by W.J.Francy; 4 pages, 10 illus.  [Not available, copyrighted]
• 50.  Nuclear Radiation: Family-type Shelter, Built-in Fallout Shelter. by J.C.LeDoux; 2 pages, 2 illus. [Not available, copyrighted]
• 51.  Man's Adjustment of Nuclear Force. by E.J.Peltier; 2 pages  [Not available, copyrighted]
• 52.  Nuclear Radiation - The Effect on the Individual. by John C.LeDoux; 4 pages, 4 illus.  [Not available, copyrighted]
• 53.  Nuclear Radiation - Friend of Foe?. by John C.LeDoux; 3 pages, 4 illus. [How much of a risk is nuclear radiation compared to normal life hazards] [Not available, copyrighted]
• 54.  Factors to Be Understood in Site Selection. by M.D.Kickpatrick; 6 pages, 4 illus., biblio.  Price .50 {Item No.22396}[For large scale shelters]
• 55.  Collective Protection Against Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Warfare Agents. by J.C.Letts; 8 pages, 5 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No22397}
• 56.  Bibliography of Recommended Reading On Atomic Defense Engineering. by LCDR A.F.Dill; 10 pages  Price 1.00 {Item No.22398}
• Index; 13 pages