  This work is devoted to the experimental study of the longitudinal hadronic
shower development in the ATLAS barrel combined prototype calorimeter
consisting of the lead-liquid argon electromagnetic part and the
iron-scintillator hadronic part. The results have been obtained on the basis of
the 1996 combined test beam data which have been taken on the H8 beam of the
CERN SPS, with the pion beams of 10, 20, 40, 50, 80, 100, 150 and 300 GeV/c.
The degree of description of generally accepted Bock parameterization of the
longitudinal shower development has been investigated. It is shown that this
parameterization does not give satisfactory description for this combined
calorimeter. Some modification of this parameterization, in which the e/h
ratios of the compartments of the combined calorimeter are used, is suggested
and compared with the experimental data. The agreement between such
parameterization and the experimental data is demonstrated.
