An experimental study to develop an electrically driven flyer system for explosive initiation studies is described. Both pulsed laser stereophotography and streak camera studies have been used to determine a foil/land/flyer geometry that will give sufficiently planar flyers for quantitative explosive initiation studies. A shot assembly with explosive wedges 6.4-mm diam and 20 to 30/sup 0/ angles has been designed to study run distances to detonation from 0.5 mm to 2.0 mm. Preliminary results are given for 1.8-g/cm/sup 3/ superfine TATB.
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An experimental study to develop an electrically driven flyer system for explosive initiation studies is described. Both pulsed laser stereophotography and streak camera studies have been used to determine a foil/land/flyer geometry that will give sufficiently planar flyers for quantitative explosive initiation studies. A shot assembly with explosive wedges 6.4-mm diam and 20 to 30/sup 0/ angles has been designed to study run distances to detonation from 0.5 mm to 2.0 mm. Preliminary results are given for 1.8-g/cm/sup 3/ superfine TATB.
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Seitz, W.L.; Schmidt, S.C. & Wackerle, J.Development of a large electrically driven flyer system for explosive initiation studies,
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