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The combustion of granular powders is studied in a broad range of loading densities. The nontraditonal design of manometric bombs and the model ballistic installations on which the conditions close to a real detonation were simulated were used. It was established experimentally that the instability of a shot from a light–gas gun is caused by poor reproducibility of the ignition and combustion of powders fired at a loading density of Δ≲ 0.5 g/cm3. It is shown that the differences between the specific features of gas formation upon combustion of fine tubular and multiperforated powders under conditions of a classical manometric bomb (Δ≤ 0.3 g/cm3) and in a real shot (Δ≥ 0.6 g/cm3) are connected not only with the nonstationary character of combustion, but also with the dependence of the shape of a burning grain (area of the burning surface) on experimental conditions and, in particular, on the loadng density. It is shown that the use of a stepwise dependence of the factor in a geometrical law of combustion allows one to obtain a good agreement between the experimental and calculated pressure curves, including the ignition period, which makes it possible to describe the combustion of combined charges more correctly.
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Khristenko, Y.F. Experimental Methods for Studying the Combustion of Granular Powders in a Broad Range of Process Parameters. Combustion, Explosion, and Shock Waves 37, 72–77 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1002872810296
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