fragmentation damageの例文
- It had already been proven, from ships facing bombardment from shell-armed shore batteries, that wooden ships were horribly vulnerable to shell-fire, which both caused massive blast and wood-and metal-fragmentation damage ( and hence very high crew casualties ), but also scattered red-hot, jagged fragments all about, which embedded themselves into the wooden hull and acted much the same as the feared heated shot, or simply ignited many of the flammable objects and materials laying about on a normal wooden ship . . . lighting oils, tar, tarred cords, powder charges, etc . The quick destruction wrought by explosive shells on vessels during the American Civil War brought quick recognition of this fact, in most cases, at least.
