Explosives Engineering

Part 1 Chemistry of explosives: organic chemical nomenclature; oxidation; pure explosives; use of forms of explosives; estimating properties of explosives; decomposition. Part 2 Energetics of explosives: terms of thermodynamics; thermophysics; thermochemistry; group additivity; reaction temperature; closed vessel calculations; estimating detonation properties. Part 3 Shock waves: qualitative description of a shock wave; the bead model; Rankine-Hugoniot jump equations; the Hugonoit of planes, U-u, P-v, P-u; interactions of shock waves; rarefraction waves. Part 4 Detonations: detonations, general observations; real effects of explosives. Part 5 Theories of initation: nonelectric initators; hot wire initators; exploding bridgewire detonators. Part 6 Engineering applications: theories of scaling; acceleration, formation, and flight fragments; blast effects in air, water and on the human body; scaling craters; jetting, shaped charges and explosive welding; explosive welding.