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Blast Effects of High Explosive Charges Detonating in Cylindrical Steel Tubes
Author(s) -
Held Manfred
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
propellants, explosives, pyrotechnics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.56
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1521-4087
pISSN - 0721-3115
DOI - 10.1002/1521-4087(200012)25:6<307::aid-prep307>3.0.co;2-c
Subject(s) - explosive material , radius , physics , materials science , chemistry , computer security , organic chemistry , computer science
Described are tests of cylindrical high explosive charges with an L/D ratio of 2, centrally detonating in steel tubes of different radii and wall thicknesses to measure the bulge respectively the damaging effects of these steel tubes. The results can be described with analytical equations. For a protecting container with minimum weight the radius should be as large as possible, because the necessary tube wall thickness is quadratically decreasing and therefore the weight of the tube is linearly decreasing with increasing tube radius.