A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF STATIC ELECTRICITY ON LOW INPUT ENERGY ELECTRIC INITIATORS OF THE CARBON BRIDGE TYPE

Abstract

At various ordnance installations, 3 number of accidents with carbon-bridge electric initiators have been noted. A study of these accidents plus experimentation at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory demonstrate that this type of electric Initiator is extremely susceptible to initiation by the electrostatic discharges. Initiations have been caused under the following conditions of application of potential differences to the initiator structure, lead-to lead, lead-to-case, leads-to-case, and to center of leads with lead ends and case electrically shorted.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 05, 1954
Accession Number
AD0045850

Entities

People

  • J. N. Ayres

Organizations

  • Naval Ordnance Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accidents
  • Assembly
  • Electric Charge
  • Electricity
  • Electrostatic Charge
  • Explosive Devices
  • Explosives
  • Explosives Initiators
  • Frequency
  • Manufacturing
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Munitions
  • Ordnance Laboratories
  • Static Electricity
  • Test Sets
  • Weapons

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  • Explosive Engineering.