Explosive Performance Assessment of Buried Steel Pipeline

Table 3

The value of the reduction coefficient.

Reduction coefficient (n)	Soil type
1.5	Saturated clay
2.5	Semisaturated clay and silt
2.5	Very dense sand (dry or wet)
2.75	Dense sand (dry or wet)
3	Loose sand (dry or wet)
3.25	Very loose sand (dry or wet)