Simple condensed phase explosive detonation modelling
- đ¤ Speaker: Martin Braithwaite, Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Cavendish Laboratory
- đ Date & Time: Thursday 07 March 2019, 16:00 - 17:00
- đ Venue: Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory
Abstract
Commercial explosives, heterogeneous in nature, used in mining and quarrying applications tend to detonate non-ideally and their performance characteristics are not solely determined by thermodynamic analysis. Manufacturing companies are required to give some energy output estimate for their products and some occasionally undertake a non-ideal detonation analysis based on simplified theory in order to optimize the blasting process. This talk will discuss ideal and non-ideal detonation performance prediction currently in use in industry and will conclude with a brief review of a more sophisticated and reliable approach being undertaken within the Laboratory for Scientific Computing in Cambridge.
Series This talk is part of the Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group series.
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Martin Braithwaite, Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Cavendish Laboratory
Thursday 07 March 2019, 16:00-17:00