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Calculating blast radius
How do you calculate the blast radius of an HE? Safety zone/how far you'll be able to hear the explosive, etc.
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Hm, at a glance, that's a kewlish question, but on second thought it's really a very good question. For sure it has to do with power (i.e.,
energy per time) of the explosive. Wish I could help, but now I'm as curious as you! 
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I can see how one would think that, but trust me, I'm no kewl. Just ask the good people of totse BB and bbscience.org 
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ROFL, to prove you're not kewl you're providing a reference from a bunch of kewls, in casu totse. Nice going.
Anyways, be it kewl or not, this is practical discussion and thus outside the scope of this board.
Closed.
One shouldn't accept or resort to the mutilation of science to appease the mentally impaired.
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If I were to attempt to determine the 'blast radius' of my new explosive compound, how would I tell with limited apparati and on a small
scale?
For those of us without Axt's blast-drop test equipment and wide open spaces - the only real way to test an explosives' power is to compare
blast radi' (although the measurement may be very heuristic)
I am currently in deep experimental testing of novel organic peroxide polymer explosives. The only way I can test the power of resulting complexes is
by comparing them to well known blast data (e.g. acetone peroxide [kewls laugh at your leisure] )
[Edited on 30-9-2005 by Ramiel]
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If you can make sense of the screwy formated equations, your better then I. Would have been good if references were given. Check the link for
<i>slightly</i> better formating.
| Quote: | <a
href="http://groups.google.com.au/group/alt.engr.explosives/tree/browse_frm/thread/c86beabac1bb8197/982d3ab5fa923bbe?rnum=1&hl=en&q=blast
+calculate&_done=%2Fgroup%2Falt.engr.explosives%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2Fc86beabac1bb8197%2Fd1a92993c97fc769%3Fq%3Dblast+calculate%26rnum%3D1%26hl%
3Den%26#doc_982d3ab5fa923bbe">Originally posted by Francis Hermans</a>
The explosion will provoke an air shock wave which radiates in the air
and decrease with distance.
The intensity of the pressure wave depends from the quantity of explosive
that
detonate but also from it position or confinement.
Several formulae exist to calculate the air overpressure.
The two following are given for unconfined detonation at ground level
and are valid for a charge of TNT.
It is generally agreed that for commercial explosives the corresponding
charge can be reduce by 20 to 30 %.
1/3
P = 700 Q /R (mbar)
where
Q = kg
R = m
or by :
1/3 -1,2
Ps = 185 (R/Q )
where
Ps = KPa
If the same charge exploded freely underwater, then you could use the
Cole's formula to calculate the peak pressure of the shock wave.
1/3 1,13
Pm = 555 (Q /R)
where
Pm = peak pressure in bar
but here again, the formula is made for a TNT charge.
Francis
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Try <a
href="http://groups.google.com.au/group/alt.engr.explosives/tree/browse_frm/thread/f70e73227f8090ae/2a2754fb8f059b1c?rnum=1&hl=en&q=blast
+calculate&_done=%2Fgroup%2Falt.engr.explosives%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2Ff70e73227f8090ae%2F25a275b534eac9b5%3Fq%3Dblast+calculate%26rnum%3D2%26hl%
3Den%26#doc_2a2754fb8f059b1c">here</a> as well.
This is the reference to the underwater blast calculations refered to in the quote above. I dont know where the air blast one come from.
R.H. Cole, “Underwater Explosions”, Dover Publications, NY (1948)
Thats for TNT, try relating that to some comparitive tables such as;
<center><img src="http://www.sciencemadness.org/scipics/axt/pressure-table.jpg"></center>
[Edited on 29-9-2005 by Axt]
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Regardless, if I were to attempt to determine the 'blast radius' of my new explosive compound, how would I tell?
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Plate dent test? Lead block? Whole lot more practical than blast radius, because how on earth are you going to measure that reliably?
Furthermore, the energetics section of this board focusses on the chemistry of energetic materials, not the practical side.
Therefore this thread is closed, again.
One shouldn't accept or resort to the mutilation of science to appease the mentally impaired.
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