Optical depth measurements of fireballs from aluminized high explosives

Optics and Lasers in Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1009-1015

  Peuker, Jennifer Mott ^a   Lynch, Patrick ^a   Krier, Herman ^a   Glumac, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aluminized fireball; Attenuation length; Optical depth

Indexed keywords

ABSORBANCE; ALUMINIZED FIREBALL; ATTENUATION LENGTH; ATTENUATION LENGTHS; HIGH EXPLOSIVES; HIGH REACTIVITY; IMAGING METHOD; OPTICAL DEPTH; PEAK ABSORPTION; TEMPORALLY RESOLVED;

DETONATION;

EID: 67449099856     PISSN: 01438166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlaseng.2009.04.011     Document Type: Article

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