DDESB TECHNICAL PAPERS
TP 10 - Methodology for Chemical Hazard Prediction, Jun 1980 - This document describes an atmospheric-diffusion model which provides an appropriate method for calculating hazard-distances associated with chemical accidents or incidents for emergency-planning purposes. Background, experience, and judgment are required in the responsible employment of these methods. That judgment is required to determine source parameters, to use the meteorological input parameters, and to apply the model to situations involving changing meteorological environments. Integrity of the results obtained will reflect the users' understanding of the physical processes, models, methods and, when utilized, computer programs.
TP 12 - FRAGMENT AND DEBRIS HAZARD - This paper was prepared by the Technical Programs Divsion of the DoD Explosives Safety Board, as a brief review of selected concepts involved in characterizing the hazards of fragment-producing ammunition. (Available on the DDESB SecureWeb)
TP 13 - PREDICTION OF BUILDING DEBRIS FOR QUANTITY-DISTANCE SITING - An analytical model is presented to predict hazardous building debris distances for accidental explosions within explosives material operations buildings. The model was developed for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Safety Office under funding by DOE and the U.S. Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board (DDESB). This model provides an approved method for determining siting distances for explosive loading conditions and building construction types most common to DOE and DoD facilities.
TP 14 - APPROVED METHODS AND ALGORITHMS FOR DOD RISK-BASED EXPLOSIVES SITING, Revision 4, 21 July 2009 -- In 1997, the Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board (DDESB) recognized the need to develop a risk-based approach for explosives safety analysis and chartered the Risk-Based Explosives Safety Criteria Team (RBESCT) to develop such an approach. The result of this effort was the Safety Assessment for Explosives Risk (SAFER) tool, which is based on the methods and algorithms documented in Technical Paper (TP) 14
TP 15 - APPROVED PROTECTIVE CONSTRUCTION -- DDESB Technical Paper (TP) 15 provides a comprehensive listing of ammunition and explosives (AE) storage facilities and protective construction facilities and features that have been designed and built over the past 70 years. Its purposes are to: (1) educate and enhance from an historical perspective, an understanding of how criteria developed and were influenced; and (2) to document approved protective construction designs to provide the explosives safety community common information for their use and benefit.
TP16- METHODOLOGIES FOR CALCULATING PRIMARY FRAGMENT CHARACTERISTICS -- Technical Paper (TP) 16 provides Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board (DDESB) approved methodologies for calculating the characteristics of primary fragments. It includes methodologies for calculating: primary fragment mass and velocity, maximum fragment range, hazardous fragment distance, effects of detonating stacks of items, effects of detonating buried items, and penetration information. This document will be kept current and will be updated as new methodologies are developed. (Available on the DDESB SecureWeb)
TP 17 - DDESB BLAST EFFECTS COMPUTER VERSION 6 USER’S MANUAL AND DOCUMENTATION -- Technical Paper (TP) 17 Revision 1 provides documentation and a users guide for the Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board (DDESB) Blast Effects Computer (BEC), Version 6. The DDESB has had an active role in producing various explosion effects computation aids for over 25 years. The latest version of the BEC is a template for an EXCEL spreadsheet. (Available on the DDESB SecureWeb)
TP 18 - MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS FOR UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE (UXO) TECHNICIANS AND PERSONNEL -- This document provides minimum qualification standards for personnel performing unexploded ordnance (UXO)-related operations in support of the Department of Defense with the exception of DoD Explosives Ordnance Disposal (EOD) personnel. Such operations include, but may not be limited to: military munitions responses, range clearance activities, range maintenance, and inspection or certification of munitions debris and range-related debris being considered for transfer or release from DoD control.
TP 19 - USER’S REFERENCE MANUAL FOR THE SAFETY ASSESSMENT FOR EXPLOSIVES RISK SOFTWARE, Revision 1, 21 July 2009 -- TP-19 is a user's guide for Version 3.1 of the SAFER software. SAFER is the DDESB's risk-based explosives siting software system. (See TP-14 above for a description of the methods and algorithms used in the SAFER model.)
TP 21 - PROCEDURES FOR THE COLLECTION, ANALYSIS, AND INTERPRETATION OF EXPLOSION-PRODUCED DEBRIS—REVISION 1 -- Technical Paper (TP) 21 provides Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board (DDESB) guidance and recommenda- tions for the collection and analysis of explosion produced debris. This document represents a revision of the NATO document, NATO AC/258-D/462, first published in 1999. Because this document is derived from a NATO document, the International System of Units (SI) is used throughout. This document will be kept current and will be updated as new methodologies are developed.
TP 22 - Technical Paper (TP) 22 provides Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board (DDESB) guidance for the installation and maintenance of lightning protection systems for ammunition and explosives facilities. The primary focus of this DDESB TP is to clarify the lightning protection requirements outlined in Chapter 7 of DoD 6055.09-STD and the National Fire Protection Association 780 "Standard for the Installation of Lightning Protection Systems." It outlines some basic principles of lightning phenomena, specific types of lightning protection systems, minimum design criteria, and maintenance requirements. The paper also presents guidance for a risk acceptance process when facilities cannot meet the lightning protection requirements outlined. This document will be kept current and will be updated as new technologies are developed. (Available on the DDESB SecureWeb)
TP 23 - ASSESSING EXPLOSIVE SAFETY RISKS, DEVIATIONS, AND CONSEQUENCES -- Technical Paper (TP) 23 provides the Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board (DDESB) six-step process for Explosives Safety Risk Management (ESRM). It includes the Office of Management and Budget’s Principles of Risk Management, a comparison of all four Service’s Risk Management processes, and details a tool (Automated Safety Assessment Protocol – Explosives (ASAP-X)) for use in assessing consequences associated with explosive hazards. This document and the latest version of the ASAP-X is an EXCEL spreadsheet and will be kept current and will be updated as new methodologies are developed.
