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Shock Wave Science and Technology Reference Library, Vol. 5

Non-Shock Initiation of Explosives

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. B. W. Asay

    1. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA

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  • Edited and authored by a group of leading international experts, this volume is the first compendium to assemble in a single text our present knowledge about the vast range of non-shock ignition mechanisms of gas, liquid and solid explosives, where initiation is not prompt, and involves a series of steps that may or may not lead to a steady detonation
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Shock Wave Science and Technology Reference Library (SHOCKWAVES, volume 5)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  2. Introduction

    • Blaine W. Asay
    Pages 1-14

  3. Transport Phenomena for Nonshock Initiation Processes

    • W. Lee Perry
    Pages 15-44

  4. The Chemical Kinetics of Solid Thermal Explosions

    • Bryan F. Henson, Laura B. Smilowitz
    Pages 45-128

  5. Classical Theory of Thermal Criticality

    • Larry G. Hill
    Pages 129-243

  6. Deflagration Phenomena in Energetic Materials: An Overview

    • Scott I. Jackson
    Pages 245-292

  7. Mechanical and Thermal Damage

    • Gary R. Parker, Philip J. Rae
    Pages 293-401

  8. Cookoff

    • Blaine W. Asay
    Pages 403-482

  9. The Deflagration-to-Detonation Transition

    • John Michael McAfee
    Pages 483-535

  10. Friction

    • Peter Dickson
    Pages 537-554

  11. Impact and Shear Ignition By Nonshock Mechanisms

    • James E. Kennedy
    Pages 555-581

  12. Spark and Laser Ignition

    • James E. Kennedy
    Pages 583-605

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 607-617
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Los Alamos National Laboratory is an incredible place. It was conceived and born amidst the most desperate of circumstances. It attracted some of the most brilliant minds, the most innovative entrepreneurs, and the most c- ative tinkerers of that generation. Out of that milieu emerged physics and engineering that beforehand was either unimagined, or thought to be f- tasy. One of the ?elds essentially invented during those years was the science of precision high explosives. Before 1942, explosives were used in munitions and commercial pursuits that demanded proper chemistry and con?nement for the necessary e?ect, but little else. The needs and requirements of the Manhattan project were of a much more precise and speci?c nature. Spatial and temporal speci?cations were reduced from centimeters and milliseconds to micrometers and nanoseconds. New theory and computational tools were required along with a raft of new experimental techniques and novel ways of interpreting the results. Over the next 40 years, the emphasis was on higher energy in smaller packages, more precise initiation schemes, better and safer formulations, and greater accuracy in forecasting performance. Researchers from many institutions began working in the emerging and expanding ?eld. In the midst of all of the work and progress in precision initiation and scienti?c study, in the early 1960s, papers began to appear detailing the ?rst quantitative studies of the transition from de?agration to detonation (DDT), ?rst in cast, then in pressed explosives, and ?nally in propellants.

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  • Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA

    B. W. Asay

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