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"Biophysical Mechanisms and Scaling Procedures Applicable to Assessing Responses of the Thorax Energized by Air-Blast Overpressures and Nonpenetrating Missiles"- I. G. Bowen, Lovelace Foundation, Albuquerque, N. M.

"Effects of Overpressure on the Ear- A Review"- F. G. Hirsch, Lovelace Foundation, Albuquerque, N. M.

"Ballistic Limits of Tissue and Clothing" - Joseph Sperrazza, U. S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, Aberdeen, Md.

"Tolerance of Man to Impact" - Arthur E. Hirsch, David Taylor Model Basin, Washington, D. C.

"Response of the Body to Mechanical Forces - An Overview" - H. E. von Gierke, Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

"The Relative Tolerance of the Head, Thorax, and Abdomen Subjected to Blunt Trauma" - C. J. Clemedson, Swedish Armed Forces, Stockholm, Sweden. (To be read by title only)

1:00 P.M.-
Luncheon

SENSITIVITY OF EXPLOSIVE MATERIALS

Session Chairman: Victor Lindner
Ammunition Engineering Directorate
Picatinny Arsenal
Dover, N. J.

2:00 P.M.-
"The Sensitivity of Explosive Systems to Detonation and Sub-detonation Reactions - A Survey" - Hyla S. Napadensky, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill.

"Development and Use of Ultra-High Pressure Test Vessel for Characterizing Propellants and Explosives" - Stanley Wachtell and L. Schulman, Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, N. J.

"On What We Don't Know about Shock Sensitivity or the Gap Test Exposed" - A.B. Amster, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, Calif.

"Response of Explosive to Fragment Impact" - Richard M. Rindner, Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, N. J.