Explosive‐Induced Pressures in Iron

摘要

The metallographic technique of C. S. Smith for determining peak pressures induced in iron by explosives is extended to include loading by oblique detonation waves. Wave interaction in an iron plate is analyzed to determine peak pressure as a function of detonation velocity and location of the hardness discontinuity in the plate. A series of oblique‐wave experiments with the explosives composition B, C‐3, C‐4, and H‐6 is described. Peak pressures computed by the metallographic method lie in the range 170–185 kbars.