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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Blast Scaling"”.
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Numerical Comparison of Muzzle Blast Loaded Structure
… essential role in understanding the effects of blast waves. However, a broad area of engineering problems, such as vehicle structures, buildings, bridges, or even the human body, can benefit by accurately predicting the response to blasts with little need for test or event data. This thesis …
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Experimental Investigation of Gaseous Oxyacetylene Blast Enhancement by the Combustion of Suspended Multimodal Spherical Aluminum Powder
… mixture. The objective was to analyze the blast enhancement from the combustion of non-uniform-sized aluminum particles. These multimodal aluminum powders consisted of a 50/50 mixture by mass of larger (~30 μm) and smaller (~1-10 μm) particles. Experiments were conducted at the large-scale …
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Experimental investigation of optical and electrical properties of various explosive fireballs
… conductivity, magnetic field strength, blast pressure, residue, and radio frequency generation. Explosives such as TNT, RDX, HMX, Comp B, Tritonal, and Nitromethane were utilized to assess the effects of varied carbon content on each of the aforementioned properties. Furthermore, the …
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Numerical Modeling of the Energy Release of Aluminized Oxyacetylene Detonations
… aluminized oxyacetylene detonations and their blast efficiency. A numerical model was developed using blastFoam to accurately capture shock wave parameters using a compressed gas balloon method. For this method, the explosive was replaced by a compressed gas balloon with calibrated initial …