Combustion, Explosion, and Shock Waves

, Volume 45, Issue 3, pp 331–341 | Cite as

Influence of the initial gas pressure on the detonation limits and parameters of low-density secondary explosives in an inert porous medium

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Abstract

This paper reports the results of an experimental study of the detonation of low-density (3–40 mg/cm3) secondary high explosives (HEs) in evacuated and gas-filled inert porous media. A convective-jet mechanism of detonation propagation was found to occur under all conditions studied. The effects of the type of HE and initial gas pressure on the critical density of the HE and detonation parameters were elucidated. It is shown that, in the presence of air, detonation can occur at a lower volume-averaged density of the HE than in the case of the evacuated media and there are two limits (minimal and maximal) for the initial gas pressure. As the volume-averaged density HE decreases, the limits approach each other and, for a certain critical density of the HE, detonation exists only at one value of the initial pressure.

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detonation secondary low-density HEs inert porous medium detonation limits convective-jet mechanism of detonation propagation evacuated and gas-filled media 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Lavrent’ev Institute of HydrodynamicsSiberian Division Russian Academy of SciencesNovosibirskRussia

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