Sciencemadness Discussion Board

Mechanical Properties

kumarsan - 4-9-2019 at 22:45

What is energetic material's mechanics?

j_sum1 - 5-9-2019 at 01:12

What do you mean?

underground - 5-9-2019 at 03:42

I guess he asking why and how detonation is happening. If this is what you actually asking read this and this

Pyro_cat - 6-9-2019 at 22:25

Strike it with a hammer and it goes off cause of the pressure and its going off in itself creates pressure like a hammer strike on the rest of it setting it off.

What I found interesting was the slo mo guys cracking glass and the speed of that cracking was similar to the velocity of detonations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIMVge5TYz4