“Dr. John Foster, Deputy Director of Defense Research and Engineering in the DoD in the mid-1960s, realized the potential of ceramic armor, and wanted to see how far his department could advance the military applications of ceramic armor. He asked his friend, Dr. Mark Wilkins at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, to spearhead a project which became known as the “Light Armor Materials Program.” The primary goal of this project was to determine the optimal materials and configurations for military light armor — that is, for aircraft, light vehicles, and body armor purposes — and it’s quite impossible to see how the LLNL-based team could have done a better job; the exactingly rigorous and pioneering work of Dr. Wilkins and his colleagues stands out as the most impressive body of work in the field of armor science.”
Mark L. Wilkins, Charles A. Honodel et al (incl. R. L. Landingham, C. F. Cline, A.W. Casey and D. R. Sawle)
“A polymer-bonded explosive, also called PBX or plastic-bonded explosive, is an explosive material in which explosive powder is bound together in a matrix using small quantities (typically 5–10% by weight) of a synthetic polymer.”
“The U.S. conducted 210 atmospheric nuclear tests between 1945 and 1962, with multiple cameras capturing each event at around 2,400 frames per second. These are the declassified films of tests conducted by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.”
“Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Site 300 is an experimental test site operated by the Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, for the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration. It is situated on 7,000 acres in rural foothills approximately six miles southwest of downtown Tracy and 15 miles southeast of Livermore. Site 300 was established in 1955 as a non-nuclear explosives test facility to support Livermore Laboratory’s national security mission.”
D.L. Banner and C.A. Honodel, “Gun Facilities for One-dimentional Shock Wave Research at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory,” Proceedings of the 25th Aeroballistic Range Association, USN/NOL, October 1, 1974
Leroy M. Erickson, “The 4 inch Light Gas Gun at LLL and it’s Use for Detonation Physics Experiments,” Proceedings of the 30th Aeroballistic Range Association, October 1979
C. Honodel, “Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s High-Explosives Application Facility—Nearing Completion,” Proceedings of the 39th Meeting of the Aeroballistic Range Association, Albuquerque, NM, October 10-13, 1988
F. Rienecker, C. Honodel, R. Waldron, E. Moor, S. Perfect, and R. Bast, “The LLNL 150-mm Equation-of-State Gun System,” Proceedings of the 38th Meeting of the Aeroballistic Range Association, Tokyo, Japan, October 6-9, 1987
D.W. Baum, L.L. Shaw, and C.A. Honodel, “Application of High-Resolution Optical Technique to Shaped-Charge Jet Formation”, Proc. 13th Int’l Ballistics Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden, May 1992
“In the 1980s, Bahl, Bloom, Erickson, Honodel, Lee, McGuire, Sanders, Slettevold, Tamer, von Holle, and Weingart at LLNL, and Duncan at MHSMP studied effects of booster material and test configuration, of TATB particle size and temperature on shock initiation and divergence, using hemispherical boosters or thin flyers.”
C. Honodel, R. Humphrey, R. Weingart and R. Lee, Shock Initiation of TATB Formulations, Proc. 7th Symposium (Int) on Detonation, NSWC MP 82-33, Naval Surface Weapons Center, White Oak, MD (1981)
“The author would like to acknowledge the scientific contributions of Charles Honodel, Frank Helm, and Russ Sanborn. Among the many test site personnel who contributed to this
study were Douglas Bakker, Frederick Sator, John Rubke, David White, John Elliott, and Vince Gase.”
“We thank Dennis Baum, Rod Abbot, Chuck Honodel, Don Breithaupt, and A1 Brooks for their expertise in planning and carrying out the experiments, and for making their data available to us. One of us (K.W.) thanks Chris Simonson and Bob Tipton for sharing their expertise in using
CALE, Dan Steinberg for sharing his expertise in the behavior of ceramics, and Don Maxwell for
making such excellent progress in modelling ceramic behavior.”
M. L. Wilkins, R. L Landingham, and C. A. Honodel, “Fifth Progress Report Light Armor Program,” UCRL-50980,1971
D. Steinberg, D. Breithaupt, and C Honodel, “Work-Hardening and Effective Viscosity in Solid Beryllium,” X Int’l. Conf. on Research at High Pressure (AIRAPT), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 8-11 Jul 1985
“It is a pleasure to acknowledge the support and encouragement of Dick Weingart and Bill Von Holle of LLNL, with whom I have had many helpful discussions. I also wish to express my thanks to Dick Jackson, Chuck Honodel, Wayne Hofer and Henry Chau for the use of their data in developing the models.”
“It is a pleasure to acknowledge the support and encouragement of Dick Weingart and Bill Von Holle of LLNL, with whom I have had many helpful discussions. I also wish to express my thanks to Dick Jackson, Chuck Honodel and Wayne Hofer for the use of their data in developing the model.”
(Referenced): C. A. Honodel, “Gun Mount,” Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, Disclosure and Record of Invention, Case No. IL-7348
(Nov. 1983).
“Charles Honodel, John O’Conner, and Nate Rawla performed the ballistic experiments.”
M. L. Wilkins, C. A. Honodel, and D. R. Sawle, An Approach to the Study of Light Armor. Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Rept. UCRL-50284 (1967).
M. L. Wilkins, C. F. Cline, and C. A. Honodel, Fourth Progress Report on Light Armor Program, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Rept. UCRL-50694
(1969).
M. L. Wilkins, C. F. Cllne, and C. A. Honodel, Light Armor, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Rept. UCRL-71817 (1969).
M. L. Wilkins, R. L. Landingham, and C. A. Honodel, Fifth Progress Report of Light Armor Program, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Rept. UCRL-50980 (19V1) (OUO).
“The work of the following personnel of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory is acknowledged. C. A. Honodel conducted the ballistic experiments. D. E. Giroux programmed the Hemp code. W. H. Gust made the Hugoniot measurements on the ceramics. C. F. Cline 1 D. R. Sawle 1 and K. E. Froeschner made valuable contributions to the research program. Also acknowledged are the mechanical engineering support of H. J. Rien and K. G. Hoge, and the electronic engineering support of W. L. Skinner.”