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The Use of Utilizable Explosives to Increase the Efficiency of an Explosion

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The possibility of using the utilizable explosives to increase the efficiency of an explosion of industrial high–explosive (HE) charges is studied under laboratory and working conditions. To do this, the explosive charges were used as linear initiators of the elongated charges of industrial HE. It is shown that the placing of an NB–40 ballistite powder rod of diameter 10 mm in a bulk–density TNT charge of diameter 40 mm increases the velocity of acceleration of an aluminum shell by 14% (the ratio between the detonation velocities of the powder and TNT is 1.8 : 1.0). The use of ShZ–1 TNT–based and ShZ–2 RDX–based hose charges in well charges of industrial HE, such as 79/21 Grammonit (79% granular ammonium nitrate/21% scale–shaped TNT), 30/70 Grammonit (30% granular ammonium nitrate/70% granular TNT), and ammonium nitrate, as linear initiators leads to a decrease in the output of bulky rock by 15—20% and allows one to increase the grid of the wells of diameters 160 and 220 mm by 20—25% with preservation of the rock output. The ratio of the detonation velocities of ShZ–1 and ShZ–2 and industrial HE charges is within 1.5—1.7 in the case of 79/21 Grammonit and 2.2—2.6 in the case of ammonium nitrate. The results obtained are explained by the fact that the detonation of a linear initiator from utilizable materials changes the form of the detonation wave front of the basic charge; as a result, it arrives at the surface of an ambient medium at a large angle and a more intense shock wave “enters” the medium compared to the case without a linear initiator.

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Afanasenkov, A.N., Galkin, V.V. The Use of Utilizable Explosives to Increase the Efficiency of an Explosion. Combustion, Explosion, and Shock Waves 37, 239–242 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017578330837

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