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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Plastic Explosives"”.
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Functionalized silicone composites: omniphobic coatings, microspheres and plastic explosives
… a series of experiments on silicone-based plastic explosives. There is a paucity of literature regarding the controlled shock impact and subsequent detonation of commonly used explosives. What reports exist rely on computer-modelling and idealized assumptions to make conclusions about the …
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Performance of mild steel perforated plates as a blast wave mitigation technique
… plate. The blast wave was created by detonating plastic explosives. The blast wave travelled unhindered down the length of a cylindrical tube where it came into contact with the perforated plate.
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Compressive Behavior of Simulated Explosive-Filled Composites
… such as Composition C-4. These types of explosives are actually agglomerates comprised of the energetic particulate material and some manner of liquid binder. In the case of Composition C-4, the energetic material is RDX (cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine) bound by a “liquid” mixture of …
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An Analysis of the Correlation Between the Attitude, Belief, Opinion, and Demographic Components of Voluntary Forfeiture of One's Fourth Amendment Constitutional Right in Order to Permit Police Officers the use of New Concealed Weapons Detection Technology
… body searches for contraband such as plastic explosives, drugs, and concealed weapons, specifically concealed guns. The study questions that Constitutionality of permitting police officers the use of such CWDT, and the Constitutionality of one's voluntary forfeiture of a Constitutional …
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The response of honeycomb sandwich panels to blast loads
… loading. The impulse is generated by detonating plastic explosives at a constant stand-off distance and measured using a ballistic pendulum. The impulse is varied by using different charge masses. It is observed that the panels experience front plate deflection and tearing; honeycomb core …
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Memory, Margins, and Materiality: The Philadelphia MOVE Bombing
… as a police officer tossed a duffel bag full of plastic explosives onto the roof of an occupied rowhome in a Black, middle-class West Philadelphia neighborhood. The bombing and the decision to allow the fire to burn killed five children and six adults – all members of a controversial group called …
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Diode laser gas sensing for high-speed temperature and speciation measurements inside explosive fireballs
… 2-liter chamber, to 10s of grams of aluminized, plastic explosives in an 1800-liter chamber. All data validate the ability of the combined probe and data analytics to survive the implicitly destructive intensity of explosive detonation and make high-speed optical measurements of temperature and …
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The Utility of X-Ray Dual-Energy Transmission and Scatter Technologies for Illicit Material Detection
… ability is particularly important for detecting plastic explosives, where object shape information cannot be used. X-ray devices are relatively inexpensive compared to many other detection technologies. X-ray technology is considered as the technology for detecting illicit materials. Using x-ray …
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The response of singly curved fibre reinforced sandwich and laminate composite panels subjected to localised blast loads
… generated by detonating circular cylinder PE4 plastic explosives, placed at a constant standoff distance of 10mm. The charge mass ranged from 10g to 32.5g across all the panels. The failure modes of the blast loaded panels were identified by a post-test inspection. The failure mode initiation …
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From a single grain to microstructure: How explosive grains interact under shock compression
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms