Replacing the equations of Fano and Fisher for cased charge blast equivalence - I ductile casings

Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 310-313

  Hutchinson, Mike D ^a  

^a AWE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gurney energy; Impulse; Kinetics; Momentum; Scaling

Indexed keywords

ENERGY PARTITION; GURNEY ENERGY; IMPULSE; INITIAL VELOCITIES; PHYSICAL MODEL; SCALING;

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 79961213132     PISSN: 07213115     EISSN: 15214087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prep.201000167     Document Type: Article

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