• Explosives engineering is the field of science and engineering which is related to examining the behavior and usage of explosive materials. Some of the...
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  • In explosives engineering, sensitivity refers to the degree to which an explosive can be initiated by impact, heat, or friction. Current in-use standard...
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    also known as putty explosives or blastics. Plastic explosives are especially suited for explosive demolition. Common plastic explosives include Semtex and...
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    development of explosives can be traced back to 10th-century China where the Chinese are credited with engineering the world's first known explosive, black powder...
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  • explosive used in essentially all castable explosives. Other ingredients found in modern castable explosives include: Active, energetic or explosive ingredients:...
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  • of sound) are said to be "high explosives" and materials that deflagrate are said to be "low explosives". Explosives may also be categorized by their...
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    Bomb disposal is an explosives engineering profession using the process by which hazardous explosive devices are disabled or otherwise rendered safe. Bomb...
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    pressure of the detonated explosives to shatter and fracture a rock mass. The type of explosives used in mining is high explosives, which vary in composition...
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  • Explosives safety refers to the practices taken during the use of explosives to prevent injury or death. Explosives include chemicals such as TNT or dynamite...
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  • Polymer-bonded explosives, also called PBX or plastic-bonded explosives, are explosive materials in which explosive powder is bound together in a matrix...
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    spherically converging one using only a single boundary between the constituent explosives, the boundary shape must be a paraboloid; similarly, to convert a spherically...
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  • Especially for little studied explosives there may be divergent published values due to charge diameter issues. In liquid explosives, like nitroglycerin, there...
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  • Computer-aided engineering Model-driven engineering Concurrent engineering Engineering analysis Engineering design process (engineering method) Engineering mathematics...
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  • Gurney equations (category Explosives engineering)
    by military explosives, how quickly shaped charge explosives accelerate their liners inwards, and in other calculations such as explosive welding where...
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    day is equivalent to 86400 seconds. TBX (thermobaric explosives) or EBX (enhanced blast explosives), in a small, confined space, may have over twice the...
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  • Detasheet (category Explosives)
    2.0% Cab-o-sil. Rubberized explosives Cooper, Paul W. (1996). "Chapter 4: Use forms of explosives". Explosives Engineering. New York: Wiley-VCH. p. 57...
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    HMX (redirect from His Majesty's Explosive)
    Cooper, Paul W., Explosives Engineering, New York: Wiley-VCH, 1996. ISBN 0-471-18636-8 John Pike (1996-06-19). "Nitramine Explosives". Globalsecurity...
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    Commando Alma mater National Security Guard Belgaum Military School Army War College, Mhow Explosives engineering Research and Analysis Wing Assam Rifles...
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    Pakistan and weapons of mass destruction (category Explosives engineering)
    Directorate of Technical Procurement Directorate of Science & Engineering Services State Engineering Corporation (SEC) Heavy Mechanical Complex Ltd. (HMC) Pakistan...
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    penetrating power. In a June 1944 report from the Explosives Manufacturing Practices Laboratory of the Explosives Factory Maribyrnong, an operational requirement...
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  • speed. Table of explosive detonation velocities Brisance Burn rate Detonation Explosion Deflagration Flame speed Gurney equations "Explosives". Wolanski,...
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  • Oxygen balance (category Explosives engineering)
    balance can be applied is in the processing of mixtures of explosives. The family of explosives called amatols are mixtures of ammonium nitrate and TNT....
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    Detonator (redirect from Explosive primer)
    of safer secondary and tertiary explosives . Secondary and tertiary explosives are typically initiated by an explosives train starting with the detonator...
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    sabotage, explosives, bomb disposal, counter-weapons of mass destruction (NBC) and special engineering missions. The Combat Engineering Corps beret's...
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  • set off explosives, there are several different components to the safety testing of explosives: Impact testing: The impact testing of explosives is performed...
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  • Brisance (category Explosives)
    capability of a high explosive, determined mainly by its detonation pressure. Brisance is of practical importance in explosives engineering for determining...
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  • Figure of Insensitivity (category Explosives engineering)
    initiate other explosives can then be related to the RDX standard so that a ready comparison of impact sensitivity between different explosives can be made...
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    at Los Alamos to develop the implosion weapon, X (for explosives) Division headed by explosives expert George Kistiakowsky and G (for gadget) Division...
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    Detonation (category Explosives engineering)
    conventional solid and liquid explosives, as well as in reactive gases. TNT, dynamite, and C4 are examples of high power explosives that detonate. The velocity...
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  • Society of Explosives Engineers (ISEE) is a tax-exempt professional body founded in 1974 to "advance the science and art of explosives engineering." Headquartered...
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