Open AccessScaled-down test arrangements for characterizing high explosives
Author(s) -
Martin Künzel,
Jindřich Kučera
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
materiały wysokoenergetyczne
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2083-0165
DOI - 10.22211/matwys/0216
Subject(s) - explosive material , detonation , test (biology) , set (abstract data type) , detonation velocity , nuclear engineering , materials science , computer science , engineering , chemistry , geology , paleontology , organic chemistry , programming language
Newly formulated explosives and the optimization of explosive mixtures requires an experimental determination of detonation parameters, especially detonation velocity, pressure and metal accelerating ability. Increasing material and labour costs force researchers to reduce test quantities and therefore to develop smaller scale experiments which provide sufficient data to determine an explosive’s properties. Seven test set-ups found in literature are described and compared in this paper.