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Combustion, Explosion and Shock Waves

2014 year, number 4

Effect of Initial Air Pressure on the Detonation Activity of an Explosive Aerosuspension

A. V. Pinaev1, P. A. Pinaev2
1Lavrent'ev Institute of Hydrodynamics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia
2Institute of Laser Physics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia
Keywords: secondary explosives, detonation limits, detonation mechanism, critical density of an explosive aerosuspension, detonation velocity

Abstract

The effect of air pressure (0.01–0.3 MPa) on the detonatability of an aerosuspension of secondary explosive particles at a low mean volume density of the explosive (0.14–1.28 mg/cm3) is experimentally studied. The structure and basic parameters of detonation depending on the explosive density and initial gas pressure are determined, and the mechanism of low-velocity detonation propagation in explosive aerosuspensions is revealed. The lower concentration limits of detonation at different initial gas pressures are found.