Scientific Computing (Rockaway, N.J., Sept. 1) – The most detailed studies of explosive charges have been conducted at national laboratories using a gun as big as a room to fire a flat bullet – the flyer plate, typically 100 millimeters in diameter – into an explosive charge inside a thick-walled chamber that contains the fierce blast. The tests require enormous facilities. Though cumbersome, the flat plate impact is the only way to precisely recreate the conditions inside a detonating explosive – and now researchers at Illinois have recreated this in miniature on a tabletop.
Tabletop explosives
9/1/2016