Explosive Charges Safety Tests

Abstract

This paper describes several simulating tests of explosive charges subjected to some environmental stimulations. The simulating tests are designed according to environmental conditions in the battlefield. It is well known that oil-wood fire cook-off, bullet and fragment impact, shock wave sympathetic detonation and shaped charge jet penetration is the most dangerous stimuli to munitions. Therefore, the informations obtained by means of simulating tests may be used to assess and compare the vulnerability of various candidate explosives for munitions. In this paper we reported the experimental pictures and results of three explosives: TNT, Comp, B and TATB.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA528027

Entities

People

  • Jikang Zhang
  • Litian Mi
  • Ying Lin
  • Yinliang Zhang

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Battlefields
  • Chemistry
  • Detonations
  • Explosions
  • Explosive Charges
  • Explosives
  • Fires
  • Munitions
  • Sensitivity
  • Shaped Charge Jets
  • Shaped Charges
  • Shock
  • Shock Waves
  • Sympathetic Detonations
  • Vulnerability
  • Waves

Readers

  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Rocket Propulsion.