Explosives facilities

The peak pressures attainable with explosive facilities can be greatly enhanced, and the initial peak pressure can be better sustained by using a plane-wave generator to accelerate a flyer plate, which then impacts a flat specimen as shown in Fig. 3.2. This technique will generate peak pressures up to a few hundred GPa. (McQueen and Marsh, 1960 McQueen et al., 1970). 

In Design Considerations for Toxic Chemical and Explosives Facilities Scott, R., et al. ACS Symposium Series American Chemical Society Washington, DC, 1987. 

Practical techniques for explosion containment and venting are discussed, and the topic of risk assessment for explosives facilities is reviewed. 

Basics of Free-Field Blast Waves. The most severe types of energy releases which can occur in toxic chemical and explosives facilities are explosions of high explosive materials. When such materials are initiated by some stimulus, they may burn, deflagrate or detonate. Detonation is by far the most severe of these three chemical reactions, so it is usually assumed to occur in accident situations, unless one can prove otherwise quite conclusively. 

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