Recent Advances in Condensed Media Detonations

Models of Explosively Driven Metal

“…for a sphere. Gurney noted that Equations (26) and (28) In his discussion in Section IV of his report, Gurney suggests a slightly lower value than 1/2 in Equation (26). He also comments that his equations are intended to express the fact that a fraction of the chemical energy released is converted into kinetic energy, other details being unimportant for his purpose.…”

The shock-to-detonation transition in solid explosives

“…After a lapse of over ten years, work began to be reportod in tho open literature which describad in quantitative terms the build-up to deconation from shocks of kr.own prissure am.tplitudem (3)(4)(5)(6)(7).…”

“…The shock-to-detonation transition has veen studied at NOL by the use of a plane-wave system zrranged in such a way as to make it possible to follow continuously the wave font within the shocked sample (3,4).…”

Computed and Experimental Hugoniots for Unreacted Porous High Explosives

“…A knowledge of the Hugoniot of unreacted explosives is required to interpret transitional phenomena in explosives and to determine the shock sensitivity of explosives 1 . For example, the Naval Surface Weapons Center Large Scale Gap Test (LSGT) 2 ' 3 is used to determine the relative shock sensitivity of explosives.…”