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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.