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Survivability Tests Against Neighbouring Detonations
Author(s) -
Held Manfred
Publication year - 2002
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(200204)27:2<94::aid-prep94>3.0.co;2-o
Subject(s) - detonation , charge (physics) , survivability , acceptor , materials science , shock (circulatory) , flash (photography) , shock wave , physics , explosive material , chemistry , mechanics , condensed matter physics , optics , aerospace engineering , engineering , quantum mechanics , medicine , organic chemistry
Flash X‐ray pictures of gap test arrangements show that the material of the gap, in this investigation disks of plexiglass, will disperse and destroy unconfined acceptor charges, if the shock is not strong enough to get a prompt or at least a very fast initiation. The initiation location and/or the direction of the detonation wave of the donor charge to the gap material and acceptor charge or inverse, is under the investigated test conditions from very small influence to the behaviour of the acceptor charge.