Advances in the understanding of the large-scale gap test

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 845 II, Issue , 2006, Pages 944-947

  Burley, S J ^a   Bourne, N K ^a   Fung, V ^b   Hollands, R ^b   Millett, J C F ^c   Milne, A M ^d   Wood, A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b BAE SYSTEMS   (United Kingdom)

^c CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Fluid Gravity Engineering   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Detonation; Manganin; Sensitivity; Shock

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846188568     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2263477     Document Type: Conference Paper

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2. Milne, A. M., "EDEN Users' Manual", Fluid Gravity Engineering, St. Andrews, Fife, UK, 2004.
3. Eickhoff, P., "Manual for EMTAP Test Number 22, June 1978." (personal communication, 2004).
4. Rosenberg, Z., ,D. Yaziv, and Y. Partom, "Calibration of Foil-Like Manganin Gauges in Planar Shock Wave Experiments", J. Appl. Phys. 51, 3702-3705, 1980.
5. Bourne, N. K., S. J. Burley, G. A. Cooper, V. Fung, and R. Hollands, "Re-Calibration of the UK Large-scale Gap Test", Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics 30, 196-198, 2005.
6. Bourne, N. K., A. M. Milne, and R. A. Biers, "Measurement of the Pressure Pulse from a Detonating Explosive", J. Phys. D Appl. Phys. 38, 1984-1988, 2005.
7. Bourne, N. K. and A. M. Milne, "Shock to Detonation Transition in a Plastic Bonded Explosive", J. Appl. Phys. 95, 2379-2385, 2004.