Shock Sensitivity of Solid Explosive Substances with the Consideration of Explosion Transmission,
Abstract
It is well known that at an impact on an explosive substance an explosive decomposition produced by the impact is not always converted into a self-propagating explosive process; an explosion often dies out and a kind of microexplosion takes place. It appeares that explosive substances differ substantially in their ability to cause explosion propagation and, in particular, in the probability of transmitting an explosion from the substance compressed by the impact to the surrounding materials. A description is given of the experiments on the determination of conditions on which the probability of explosion transmission depends. On the basis of these investigations, a method was developed for the determination of impact sensitivity and the sensitivity measurement was performed for certain substances. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1973
- Accession Number
- AD0762327
Entities
People
- I. S. Klochkov
Organizations
- United States Army Foreign Science and Technology Center