Download or read book Mortality in Small Animals Exposed in a Shock Tube to "sharp"-rising Overpressures of 3-4 MSEC Duration written by Donald R. Richmond and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critical pulse duration, that duration shorter than which the overpressures required for mortality increases sharply, was noted to depend upon animal size and to be of the order of many hundreds of microseconds to very few milliseconds for "smaller" animals and a few to many tens of milliseconds for "larger" animals.