Pressures inside a room subjected to simulated sonic booms

The pressure variations inside a room of plaster-wood construction subjected to sonic boom loadings were investigated both analytically and experimentally to study the problems of dynamic structural response. The N-wave pressure signatures were generated in the UTIAS (University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies) Travelling Wave Horn-Type Sonic Boom Simulator. The room overpressures in some cases were found to be twice as great as that in the incident sonic boom. The analysis and experimental data can be useful in assessing structural damage caused by supersonic aircraft overfligths.