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Emergency destruction system for recovered chemical munitions
At the request of the US Army Project Manager for Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel, Sandia National Laboratories is developing a transportable system for destroying recovered, explosively configured, chemical warfare munitions. The system uses shaped charges to access the agent and burster followed by chemical neutralization to destroy them. The entire process takes place inside a sealed pressure vessel. In this paper, they review the design, operation, and testing of a prototype system capable of containing up to one pound of explosive
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Excess transit time as a function of burst current in an exploding bridgewire detonator
Transit time, the time from bridgewire burst until breakout of detonation from the output pellet of an exploding bridgewire detonator, was measured as a function of burst current. From this data, in conjunction with known equations for run distance versus pressure, unreacted explosive Hugoniots, and detonation properties of the initial pressing pellet, the run distance in the initial pressing explosive pellet and shock pressure from the exploding bridgewire were determined, both as a function of burst current
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Experimental and computational studies of rod-deployment mechanisms
We describe experimental measurements and hydrocode simulations of two tests in which long (L/D=12), steel rods were accelerated laterally with charges of Detasheet-C high explosive (HE). In each test configuration, 84 rods were initially aligned parallel to one another in an array of four concentric rings. The first test had a central core of HE that dispersed the rods isotropically. The second test had a narrow, 180 degree strip of HE on one side of the assembly that focused the rods directionally. Using radiographic data taken at several milliseconds after HE initiation, we measured the dynamic distributions of the rods, and their translational velocities and tumble rates. To compare with the data, we also modeled the experiments with our smooth particle hydrocode SPHINX. Within the context of our numerical model, the hydrocode results agree satisfactorily with the test data. We include in our discussion many of the inferences and insights that our results provide to the phenomenology and performance of multimode, rod-deployment mechanisms