Shock factor is a commonly used figure of merit for estimating the amount of shock experienced by a naval target from an underwater explosion as a function of explosive charge weight, slant range, and depression angle (between vessel and charge).
The application scenario for Equation 1 is illustrated by Figure 1.
The numeric result from computing the shock factor has no physical meaning, but it does provide a value... more
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