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Towards the miniaturization of explosive technology

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Condensed phase explosives used in conventional explosive systems have a charge size on the order of a meter or a sizable fraction of a meter. This paper addresses a range of issues required to scale downwards the size of explosive systems by a factor of one hundred to one thousand.

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  1. Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA (e-mail: dss@uiuc.edu) , , , , , , US

    D.S. Stewart

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Received 27 July 2001/ Accepted 28 January 2002

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Stewart, D. Towards the miniaturization of explosive technology. Shock Waves 11, 467–473 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001930200129

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