ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- You can learn a lot from a blast tube. You can learn more when you couple blast experiments with computer modeling. Sandia National Laboratories researchers are using a blast tube ...

"We are using the 'Blast-STAR' shock tube to test different glazing structures of glass facades for their resistance to the pressures produced by explosions at various distances," says the EMI ...

Research teams have established a theoretical method for designing smooth curved wall surfaces with variable cross-section shock tubes, and developed an integrated, high-intensity multifunctional ...

The severe vibrations aboard rockets, spacecraft, and satellites en route to orbit and those less severe but sometimes troublesome of military and commercial aircraft (especially helicopters), ...