High-Speed Photographic Experiments To Investigate The Effects Of Booster Housing Geometry On The Detonability Of Secondary Explosives

C. D. Hutchinson

doi:10.1117/12.967987

1 February 1985 High-Speed Photographic Experiments To Investigate The Effects Of Booster Housing Geometry On The Detonability Of Secondary Explosives

C. D. Hutchinson

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Proceedings Volume 0491, 16th Intl Congress on High Speed Photography and Photonics; (1985) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.967987
Event: 16th International Congress on High Speed Photography and Photonics, 1984, Strasbourg, France

Abstract

Warheads in conventional munitions contain three explosive components - a detonator, an augmenting charge known as a booster and a main filling. High-speed photographic experiments have indicated that a significant improvement in the initiating ability of boosters can be obtained if minor modifications are made to their containers, or housings. It is shown that in the situation where an aluminium alloy booster housing is inserted into a recess in the main filling, enhanced radial initiation can be achieved. This is especially welcome where insensitive plastic bonded high explosives are used as main charge fillings.

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C. D. Hutchinson "High-Speed Photographic Experiments To Investigate The Effects Of Booster Housing Geometry On The Detonability Of Secondary Explosives", Proc. SPIE 0491, 16th Intl Congress on High Speed Photography and Photonics, (1 February 1985); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.967987

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