Explosive Shocks in Air

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Explosions

   • Gilbert Ford Kinney, Kenneth Judson Graham

   Pages 1-17

3. Thermodynamics of Explosions

   • Gilbert Ford Kinney, Kenneth Judson Graham

   Pages 18-34

4. Characteristics of Air

   • Gilbert Ford Kinney, Kenneth Judson Graham

   Pages 35-49

5. The Shock Front

   • Gilbert Ford Kinney, Kenneth Judson Graham

   Pages 50-68

6. Reflected Shock

   • Gilbert Ford Kinney, Kenneth Judson Graham

   Pages 69-87

7. Blast Waves

   • Gilbert Ford Kinney, Kenneth Judson Graham

   Pages 88-106

8. The Scaling Law

   • Gilbert Ford Kinney, Kenneth Judson Graham

   Pages 107-118

9. Explosion Overpressures

   • Gilbert Ford Kinney, Kenneth Judson Graham

   Pages 119-136

10. Internal Blast

    • Gilbert Ford Kinney, Kenneth Judson Graham

    Pages 137-160

11. Dynamic Blast Loads

    • Gilbert Ford Kinney, Kenneth Judson Graham

    Pages 161-173

12. Structure Response

    • Gilbert Ford Kinney, Kenneth Judson Graham

    Pages 174-194

13. Back Matter

    Pages 195-269

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A purpose of science is to organize diversified factual knowledge into a coherent body of information, and to present this from the simplest possible viewpoint. This is a formidable task where our knowledge is incomplete, as it is with explosions. Here one runs the risk of oversimplification, naivete, and incom­ pleteness. Nevertheless a purpose of this work is to present as simply as possible a general description of the basic nature of explosions. This treatise should be of interest to all who are working with explosives such as used in construction or in demolition work, in mining operations, or in military applications. It should also be of interest to those concemed with disasters such as explosions or earthquakes, to those involved in civil defense precautions, and to those concemed with defense against terrorists. That is, this material should be of interest to all who wish to utilize, or to avoid, the effects of explosions as weil as to those whose interest is primarily scientific in nature.

• construction
• dynamics
• earthquake
• information
• material
• mining
• nature
• risk
• science
• thermodynamics
• air pollution and air quality

• U. S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, USA

  Gilbert Ford Kinney

• Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, USA

  Kenneth Judson Graham

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