Explosives technology and pyrotechnics

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.

The combustion properties of organic materials are used to assess their safety specifications.

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

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

The combustion properties of organic materials are used to assess their safety specifications.

The combustion properties of organic materials are used to assess their safety specifications.

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.

Combustion agents for solid fuel propellants and explosives have gained widespread interest in recent years.

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

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

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

This book enriches the readers with the advances in rock blasting techniques for mining and civil construction rock excavation projects, including the need for and importance of rock blasting, related theories, challenges in rock blasting operations, and rock blasting methodology for excavation of coal and overburden benches of opencast coal mines.

Incorporation of particular components with specialized properties allows one to tailor the end product's properties.

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

Industrial Explosives and their Applications for Rock Excavation focuses on applications of industrial explosives in civil and mining engineering works.

The new definitive reference in the field.

Metal-Fluorocarbon Based Energetic Materials This exciting new book details all aspects of a major class of pyrolants and elucidates the progress that has been made in the field, covering both the chemistry and applications of these compounds.

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

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 book provides chemists with technical insight on pyrotechnics and explosives.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

This graduate-level textbook in a new revised edition treats the basic chemistry of high energy materials - primary and secondary explosives, propellants, rocket fuel and pyrotechnics - and provides a review of new research developments.

Provides a hands-on approach to demilitarization and environmental aspects of energetic materials and munitions This book gives an overview of the environmental impact of the production, use, and cleanup of energetic materials and munitions.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Explore the first English children s picture book on how fireworks and gunpowder were created!

Explore the first English children s picture book on how fireworks and gunpowder were created!

Originally created as a U.

This manual provides detailed explanation of manufacturing munitions from seemingly innocuous locally available materials.