Download or read book Fundamentals of Shaped Charges written by William P. Walters and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 1989 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the art and science of developing shaped charges. Presents the history of shaped charges, the principles governing their design, and a variety of example applications. Includes discussion of Gurney and Taylor methods, jet formation, the visco-plastic model, jet penetration, fabrication, computational aspects, and how to design shaped charges for different applications. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Impactful Times written by James R. Asay and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a history of shock compression science, including development of experimental, material modeling, and hydrodynamics code technologies over the past six decades at Sandia National Laboratories. The book is organized into a discussion of major accomplishments by decade with over 900 references, followed by a unique collection of 45 personal recollections detailing the trials, tribulations, and successes of building a world-class organization in the field. It explains some of the challenges researchers faced and the gratification they experienced when a discovery was made. Several visionary researchers made pioneering advances that integrated these three technologies into a cohesive capability to solve complex scientific and engineering problems. What approaches worked, which ones did not, and the applications of the research are described. Notable applications include the turret explosion aboard the USS Iowa and the Shoemaker-Levy comet impact on Jupiter. The personal anecdotes and recollections make for a fascinating account of building a world-renowned capability from meager beginnings. This book will be inspiring to the expert, the non expert, and the early-career scientist. Undergraduate and graduate students in science and engineering who are contemplating different fields of study should find it especially compelling.

Download or read book Numerical Modeling of Explosives and Propellants written by Charles L. Mader and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major advances, both in modeling methods and in the computing power required to make those methods viable, have led to major breakthroughs in our ability to model the performance and vulnerability of explosives and propellants. In addition, the development of proton radiography during the last decade has provided researchers with a major new experimental tool for studying explosive and shock wave physics. Problems that were once considered intractable – such as the generation of water cavities, jets, and stems by explosives and projectiles – have now been solved. Numerical Modeling of Explosives and Propellants, Third Edition provides a complete overview of this rapidly emerging field, covering basic reactive fluid dynamics as well as the latest and most complex methods and findings. It also describes and evaluates Russian contributions to the experimental explosive physics database, which only recently have become available. This book comes with downloadable resources that contain— · FORTRAN and executable computer codes that operate under Microsoft® Windows Vista operating system and the OS X operating system for Apple computers · Windows Vista and MAC compatible movies and PowerPoint presentations for each chapter · Explosive and shock wave databases generated at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Russian Federal Nuclear Centers Charles Mader’s three-pronged approach – through text, computer programs, and animations – imparts a thorough understanding of new computational methods and experimental measuring techniques, while also providing the tools to put these methods to effective use.

Download or read book Structure and Properties of Energetic Materials Volume 296 written by Donald H. Liebenberg and published by . This book was released on 1993-05-28 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The MRS Symposium Proceeding series is an internationally recognised reference suitable for researchers and practitioners.

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Download or read book An Assessment of the Performance of the History Variable Reactive Bum Explosive Initiation Model in the CTH Code written by John Starkenberg and published by . This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We exercised the History Variable Reactive Burn (HVRB) model in the CTH code, simulating a number of common explosive sensitivity experiments, including sustained- and pulsed-shock initiation, projectile-impact initiation, and detonation failure. Predictions of sustained-shock initiation are accurate in accordance with the calibration of the model. Predictions of pulsed-shock initiation are only somewhat more accurate than those achieved previously using Forest Fire. Predictions of projectile-impact initiation are much better. The results for bare explosive show excellent agreement with experiment for both flat- and round-tipped projectiles. With a 2-mm tantalum cover, the agreement is nearly as good. With a 2-mm tantalum cover, the agreement deteriorates for flat- tipped projectiles, while remaining adequate in the case of round-tipped projectiles. The failure radius and thickness predicted with CTH exhibit minimam (near which the solutions are most stable) as functions of zone dimension, but do not appear to converge. These minimum values agree well with experiment. Although no converged solutions were obtained, the most stable failure thickness is approximately equal to the most stable failure radius.

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Download or read book Generalized Riemann Problems in Computational Fluid Dynamics written by Matania Ben-Artzi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerical simulation of compressible, inviscid time-dependent flow is a major branch of computational fluid dynamics. Its primary goal is to obtain accurate representation of the time evolution of complex flow patterns, involving interactions of shocks, interfaces, and rarefaction waves. The Generalized Riemann Problem (GRP) algorithm, developed by the authors for this purpose, provides a unifying 'shell' which comprises some of the most commonly used numerical schemes of this process. This monograph gives a systematic presentation of the GRP methodology, starting from the underlying mathematical principles, through basic scheme analysis and scheme extensions (such as reacting flow or two-dimensional flows involving moving or stationary boundaries). An array of instructive examples illustrates the range of applications, extending from (simple) scalar equations to computational fluid dynamics. Background material from mathematical analysis and fluid dynamics is provided, making the book accessible to both researchers and graduate students of applied mathematics, science and engineering.

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Download or read book Theoretical Investigation of the Wave Shaping Process in a Section of Ladder Fracture Tape written by J. J. Masinskas and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The presented paper describes the modelling of the detonation process in a section of Fracture Tape using the two-dimensional reactive Lagrangian Hydrodynamic code 2DL. The Forest Fire burn model of heterogeneous explosive shock initiation was used to model the explosive decomposition. The results show (i) the time dependent pressures (ii) detonation wave shaping and (iii) deformation of the tape. Fracture tape is a channel section neoprene moulding designed to be filled with plastic explosive. The moulding places barriers at regular intervals within the explosive which divide the detonation wave into two parts then focus both together to collide head on. The calculations indicate that with the ladder geometry Fracture Tape, the detonation wave propagates around the barriers, as well as creating a shock wave which is transmitted through the barrier itself. The transmitted shock wave may detonate the explosive immediately behind the barrier before the propagated detonation reaches it, thereby reducing the pressure enhancement from the expected collision for some distance from the barrier.

Download or read book Chemistry of Energetic Materials written by George A. Olah and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of energetic materials is emerging from one primarily directed toward practical interests to an advanced area of fundamental research, where state-of-the-art methods and theory are used side by side with modern synthetic methods. This timely book integrates the recent experimental, synthetic, and theoretical research of energetic materials. Editors George Olah and David Squire emphasize the importance of structure and mechanism in determining properties and performances. They also explore new spectrometric methods and synthetic approaches in this useful reference. - Discusses structural analysis by x-ray crystallography - Explains chemical dynamics by photofragmentation translational spectroscopy - Covers kinetic analysis by ultrafast absorption and emission spectroscopy - Details syntheses of polycyclic caged amines, fuel additives, and polynitro compounds - Examines computer-aided design of monopropellants - Includes contributions by two Nobel laureates and five members of the National Academy of Sciences

Download or read book Exoplanetary Atmospheres written by Kevin Heng and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential introduction to the theory of exoplanetary atmospheres The study of exoplanetary atmospheres—that is, of planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system—may be our best hope for discovering life elsewhere in the universe. This dynamic, interdisciplinary field requires practitioners to apply knowledge from atmospheric and climate science, astronomy and astrophysics, chemistry, geology and geophysics, planetary science, and even biology. Exoplanetary Atmospheres provides an essential introduction to the theoretical foundations of this cutting-edge new science. Exoplanetary Atmospheres covers the physics of radiation, fluid dynamics, atmospheric chemistry, and atmospheric escape. It draws on simple analytical models to aid learning, and features a wealth of problem sets, some of which are open-ended. This authoritative and accessible graduate textbook uses a coherent and self-consistent set of notation and definitions throughout, and also includes appendixes containing useful formulae in thermodynamics and vector calculus as well as selected Python scripts. Exoplanetary Atmospheres prepares PhD students for research careers in the field, and is ideal for self-study as well as for use in a course setting. The first graduate textbook on the theory of exoplanetary atmospheres Unifies knowledge from atmospheric and climate science, astronomy and astrophysics, chemistry, planetary science, and more Covers radiative transfer, fluid dynamics, atmospheric chemistry, and atmospheric escape Provides simple analytical models and a wealth of problem sets Includes appendixes on thermodynamics, vector calculus, tabulated Gibbs free energies, and Python scripts Solutions manual (available only to professors)

Download or read book Explosive Effects and Applications written by Jonas A. Zukas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a broad-based text on the fundamentals of explosive behavior and the application of explosives in civil engineering, industrial processes, aerospace applications, and military uses.

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Download or read book Assessment of Safety and Risk with a Microscopic Model of Detonation written by C.-O. Leiber and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2003-04-25 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book is a store of less well-known explosion anddetonation phenomena, including also data and experiences related tosafety risks. It highlights the shortcomings of the currentengineering codes based on a classical plane wave model of thephenomenon, and why these tools must fail. For the first time all the explosion phenomena are described in termsof proper assemblages of hot spots, which emit pressure waves andassociated near field terms in flow. Not all of the approaches arenew. Some even date back to the 19th century or earlier.. What is newis the application of these approaches to explosion phenomena. Inorder to make these tools easily available to the current detonationphysicist, basic acoustics is therefore also addressed. Whereas the current plane wave, homogeneous flow detonation physicsis an excellent engineering tool for numerical predictions undergiven conditions, the multi-hot-spot-model is an additional tool foranalyzing phenomena that cannot be explained by classicalcalculations. The real benefit comes from being able to understand,without any artificial assumptions, the whole phenomenology ofdetonations and explosions. By specifying pressure generatingmechanisms, one is able to see that the current treatment of thedetonics of energetic materials is only a very special - but powerful- case of explosion events and hazards. It becomes clear thatphysical explosions must be taken into account in any safetyconsiderations. In these terms it is easy to understand why evenliquid carbon dioxide and inert silo materials can explode. A unique collection of unexpected events, which might surprise evenspecialists, has resulted from the evaluation of the model. Thereforethis book is valuable for each explosion and safety scientist for theunderstanding and forecasting of unwanted events. The text mainlyaddresses the next generation of explosion and detonation scientists,with the goal of promoting the science of detonation on a newphysical basis. For this reason gaps in current knowledge are alsoaddressed. The science of explosions is not fully mature, but isstill in its beginning - and the tools necessary for furthering theunderstanding of these phenomena have been with us for centuries.

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