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Time Resolved Pressure Measurement of the Initiation in Gap Test Experiments
Author(s) -
Hollenberg K.
Publication year - 1986
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/prep.19860110506
Subject(s) - detonation , shock wave , explosive material , amplitude , shock (circulatory) , materials science , shock front , resistor , front (military) , pressure measurement , slab , mechanics , optics , chemistry , thermodynamics , voltage , electrical engineering , physics , meteorology , medicine , geophysics , organic chemistry , engineering
Time resolved measurement of shock pressures in high explosives is possible with inexpensive composite carbon resistors. These resistors are embedded plane to the surface of a Plexiglas slab fixed at the end of the explosive. This configuration was used with gap test experiments with a 10 g donor charge. No initiation delay is measured in Seismoplast I (plastic PETN) up to a gap height of 10 mm PMMA (Plexiglas) due to the time resolution of the measuring system. From 10 mm to 22.5 mm gap height distances for detonation development up to 25 mm are found. For even greater gap heights a shock wave with decreasing amplitude occurs. The detonation development can be explained by the measured structure of the shock waves. Behind a first shock front with nearly constant pressure a second front propagates with increasing pressure which at last catches up with the first and then the pressure increases further up to the Chapman‐Jouguet pressure of 160 kbar. At a gap height of 25 mm a stationary shock wave configuration with amplitudes of 20 kbar and 30 kbar was observed.