Accession Number:

AD0745545

Title:

Effect of Initial Temperature of Certain Explosive Liquids on Their Sensitivity to Explosion Excitation by Cavitation (Vliyanie Nachalnoi Temperatury Nekotorykh Vzryvchatykh Zhidkostei na ikh Chuvstvitelnost k Vozbuzhdeniyu Vzryva Kavitatsiei),

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

ARMY FOREIGN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER CHARLOTTESVILLE VA

Personal Author(s):

• Gordeev, V. E.
• Mateev, Yu. S.

Report Date:

1972-06-01

Pagination or Media Count:

5.0

Abstract:

The assumption that the effectiveness of cavitation as a means of initiating detonation decreases during heating of liquid explosives and increases during cooling is experimentally checked for four explosives nitroglycerin, stoichiometric solutions of benzene, heptane, and methanol in tetranitromethane. The effect of the vapor tension of the liquid explosives at various temperatures on detonation by caviatation is discussed.

Descriptors:

• *EXPLOSIVES
• USSR
• BENZENE
• EXCITATION
• CAVITATION
• CARBINOLS
• NITROGLYCERIN
• TRANSLATIONS
• TEST METHODS
• SENSITIVITY

Subject Categories:

• Ammunition and Explosives

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE