Re-calibration of the UK large scale gap test

Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 196-198

  Bourne, Neil K ^a,b   Cooper, Gary A ^a   Burley, Stephen J ^b   Fung, Virgil ^c   Hollands, Ron ^c  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c BAE SYSTEMS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gap Test; Pressure Transducers; ROWANEX 3601; Shock Physics; Shock Sensitiveness

Indexed keywords

POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; PRESSURE EFFECTS; PRESSURE TRANSDUCERS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

GAP TESTS; ROWANEX 3601; SHOCK PHYSICS; SHOCK SENSITIVENESS;

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 25444515135     PISSN: 07213115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prep.200500005     Document Type: Article

References (3)

1. UK MOD Energetic Materials Testing and Assessment Policy Committee Manual of Tests, 2002. Available on request from the UK MOD Defence Ordnance Safety Group, (contact: dosgst1a1@dpa.mod.uk.)
2. Z. Rosenburg, D. Yaziv, and Y. Partom, Calibration of Foil-like Manganin Gauges in Planar Shock Wave Experiments, J. Appl. Phys, 1980, 51, 3702.
3. N. K. Bourne, A. M. Milne, Measurement of the Pressure Pulse from a Detonating Explosive, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 2005, in press