Estimation of the efficiency of nonideal explosives

✍ Scribed by Ruth M. Doherty; James M. Short; Irving B. Akst; Mortimer J. Kamlet

• Book ID: 103041064
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 376 KB
• Volume: 76
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-2180
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-2180(89)90118-1

✦ Synopsis

Cylinder test energies of nonideal explosives are calculated on the basis of the following two assumptions: (a) that the detonation products of the overbalanced and underbalanced explosives have equilibrated completely to form the free energy-minimized detonation product composition at 7 volumes expansion; and (b) that each component has gone to its own detonation products, with no mixing or equilibration of the detonation species. From these calculations and the experimental cylinder test energy, the extent of interreaction is estimated. For the most efficient of the nonideal explosives tested, interreaction efficiencies approach 70%.