Explosives technology and pyrotechnics

Features papers directed to fire protection in various environments other than building structures including fuel transporting vehicles, spacecraft, a sports arena, an offshore oil rig and propane fueling bus facilities.

This book provides chemists with technical insight on pyrotechnics and explosives.

This book provides chemists with technical insight on pyrotechnics and explosives.

Rock Blasting and Explosives Engineering covers the practical engineering aspects of many different kinds of rock blasting.

Discussing rock breakage by blasting, this text includes: results of complex investigations into the rock breakage mechanism and the patterns of crack formation during a blast; problems of modelling; and principal equations linking the model with prototype and similarity criteria.

The results of theoretical and experimental investigations of seismic waves depending on natural and technological factors are discussed, with methods for engineering calculations of industrial blast parameters.

The results of theoretical and experimental investigations of seismic waves depending on natural and technological factors are discussed, with methods for engineering calculations of industrial blast parameters.

Provides a roadmap for understanding the relationship between technology and human rights law and practice.

Provides a roadmap for understanding the relationship between technology and human rights law and practice.

Presents the fundamentals of gas dynamics for graduate students and researchers in the subject.

Presents the fundamentals of gas dynamics for graduate students and researchers in the subject.

This book reviews the development of research into the explosive loading of structures, mainly since the beginning of the twentieth century.

This book reviews the development of research into the explosive loading of structures, mainly since the beginning of the twentieth century.

This comprehensive book presents a detailed account of research and recent developments in the field of green energetic materials, including pyrotechnics, explosives and propellants.

This comprehensive book presents a detailed account of research and recent developments in the field of green energetic materials, including pyrotechnics, explosives and propellants.

Siting of permanent and temporary buildings in process areas requires careful consideration of potential effects of explosions and fires arising from accidental release of flammable materials.

Siting of permanent and temporary buildings in process areas requires careful consideration of potential effects of explosions and fires arising from accidental release of flammable materials.

This two-volume set includes the latest principles behind the processes of drilling and excavation on Earth and other planets.

This book covers military pyrotechnics characteristics, sensitivity, combustion, performance parameters, ingredients and their behaviour, various pyrotechnic compositions and their manufacturing methods, filling, pressing and assembly of ammunition and so forth.

This book covers military pyrotechnics characteristics, sensitivity, combustion, performance parameters, ingredients and their behaviour, various pyrotechnic compositions and their manufacturing methods, filling, pressing and assembly of ammunition and so forth.

Advances in Extraterrestrial Drilling: Ground, Ice, and Underwater includes the latest advances that have been made in recent years in developing drilling and excavation mechanisms for extraterrestrial bodies.

Advances in Terrestrial Drilling: Ground, Ice, and Underwater includes the latest drilling and excavation principles and processes for terrestrial environments.

Advances in Extraterrestrial Drilling: Ground, Ice, and Underwater includes the latest advances that have been made in recent years in developing drilling and excavation mechanisms for extraterrestrial bodies.

Advances in Terrestrial Drilling: Ground, Ice, and Underwater includes the latest drilling and excavation principles and processes for terrestrial environments.

This collection of symposium papers covers a wide range of topics on rock fragmentation, from carefully documented case studies to attempts, for example, at fractal representation of the fracture process itself.

This work provides a translation of "e;Modelirovanie deistviya vzriva pri razruzhenii gornikh porod"e; (Moscow, 1990).

This collection of symposium papers covers a wide range of topics on rock fragmentation, from carefully documented case studies to attempts, for example, at fractal representation of the fracture process itself.

This work provides a translation of "e;Modelirovanie deistviya vzriva pri razruzhenii gornikh porod"e; (Moscow, 1990).

Because pyrotechnology was considered a demeaning craft, there is very little about its practice in ancient texts; our knowledge of early developments is based almost entirely on interpretation of artifacts recovered by archaeology during the past century and a half.

This book introduces the detonation phenomenon for engineers with a background in thermodynamics and fluid mechanics.

This timely book covers the most recent developments in the chemical detection of explosives in a variety of environments.

Detection and quantification of trace chemicals is a major thrust of analytical chemistry.

Some 600 pipe bomb explosions have occurred annually in the United States during the past several years.

Some 600 pipe bomb explosions have occurred annually in the United States during the past several years.

From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.

In large surface mining operations, drilling and blasting activities constitute more than 15% of the total costs.

Blasting practices in mines have undergone many changes in the recent past and continue to be honed and reconfigured to meet the demands of today,s mining needs.

Rock Fragmentation by Blasting contains the papers presented at the 10th International Symposium on Rock Fragmentation by Blasting (New Delhi, India, 26-29 November 2012), and represents the most advanced forum on blasting science and technology.

Fragmentation characteristics influence mucking productivity, crusher throughput and energy consumption, plant efficiency, yield and recovery, or the price itself of the end product in the case of industrial minerals and aggregates.

Detection and quantification of trace chemicals is a major thrust of analytical chemistry.

This volume provides an overview of current research and recent advances in the area of energetic materials, focusing on explosives and propellants.

This unique book is a store of less well-known explosion anddetonation phenomena, including also data and experiences related tosafety risks.

Major advances, both in modeling methods and in the computing power required to make those methods viable, have led to major breakthroughs in our ability to model the performance and vulnerability of explosives and propellants.