Engineering Response to Mechanical Shock 1968 Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Sandia Laboratories

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Originally a public domain film, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.

The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).

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The Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), managed and operated by the National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia (a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International), is one of three National Nuclear Security Administration research and development laboratories. In December 2016, it was announced that National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, under the direction of Honeywell International, will take over the management of Sandia National Laboratories starting on May 1, 2017.

Their primary mission is to develop, engineer, and test the non-nuclear components of nuclear weapons. The primary campus is located on Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico and the other is in Livermore, California, next to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. There is also a test facility in Waimea, Kauai, Hawaii.

It is Sandia's mission to maintain the reliability and surety of nuclear weapon systems, conduct research and development in arms control and nonproliferation technologies, and investigate methods for the disposal of the United States' nuclear weapons program's hazardous waste. Other missions include research and development in energy and environmental programs, as well as the surety of critical national infrastructures. In addition, Sandia is home to a wide variety of research including computational biology, mathematics (through its Computer Science Research Institute), materials science, alternative energy, psychology, MEMS, and cognitive science initiatives. Sandia formerly hosted ASCI Red, one of the world's fastest supercomputers until its recent decommission, and now hosts ASCI Red Storm, originally known as Thor's Hammer. Sandia is also home to the Z Machine. The Z Machine is the largest X-ray generator in the world and is designed to test materials in conditions of extreme temperature and pressure. It is operated by Sandia National Laboratories to gather data to aid in computer modeling of nuclear weapons...

https://www.sandia.gov/vqsec/facilities/mechshock.html

At Sandia National Laboratories’ Mechanical Shock Complex, we specialize in providing tailored impact environments, such as shock and crush. We have simulated many dynamic environments, including weapon delivery, severe accident, and pyroshock.

Our primary tools are a pneumatic actuator-and-sled system and a 6-inch bore gas gun. We can test articles up to 10,000 lbs. Depending on the size and weight of the test article, we can apply velocity changes up to 1,140 ft/s, and attain acceleration levels on the order of 50,000 g...

We are an indoor facility that is temperature-controlled and shielded from weather.  We can measure unit function, test article kinematics, and material deformation. Our measurement tools range from accelerometers and strain gages to advanced photometrics and high-speed radiography...