Explosives Engineering

Paul W. Cooper

• Publisher: Wiley-VCH
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781119537175
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technik & Maschinenbau
• Subtopic: Maschinenbau Allgemein

This graduate text, and Cooper's companion introductory text ('Introduction to the Technology of Explosives'), serve the same markets as the successful explosives reference by Meyer, now in its 4th edition. VCH also published the International Journal of Propellants, Explosives, and Pyrotechnics. The resulting package would give VCH the major presence in the field.
This text presents the basic technologies used in the engineering of explosives and explosive systems, i.e., chemistry, burning, detonation, shock waves, initiation theories, scaling. The book is written for upper-division undergraduate or graduate-level scientists and engineers, and assumes a good grasp of basic physics, chemistry, mechanics and mathematic through calculus. It is based on lecture notes used for graduate courses at the Dept. of Energy Laboratories, and could serve as a core text for a course at schools of mining or military engineering. The intent of the book is to provide the engineer or scientist in the field with an understanding of the phenomena involved and the engineering tools needed to solve/ design/ analyze a broad range of real problems.

SECTION II
ENERGETICS OF EXPLOSIVES

Introduction

We will review the basic quantities of thermodynamics: energy, temperature, heat, work, and the ideal gas law. These quantities will be used to explain the principles of thermophysics and thermochemistry, which will be applied to the specific reactions of combustion and detonation. Using the thermochemical data of heats of detonation or explosion, we will see how to calculate adiabatic reaction temperatures. These data in turn will be used to analyze or predict pressures of explosions in closed vessels. We shall also see how, using thermochemical data, to predict detonation velocities and detonation pressures.

CHAPTER 7
Basic Terms of Thermodynamics

We shall begin with the basics of thermodynamics and see how these basics are used to develop engineering calculations and estimates dealing with explosives. Hougan, Watson, and Ragatz, i...