Loading and fabrication of expls

Plant Layout, Location, Design and Construction. For information on the special techniques required in the loading and fabrication of expls pertinent to ammo plant layout and design, see the entry under that title in Vol 7, L46-L to L57-L For what has been done to accomplish modernization of munitions plants now extant, see Modernization Engineering Project for US Army,Ammunition Plants1 in this Vol, M.147-L to Ml48-R. The problem of pollution created by ammo plants is examined in an article under this topic in this Vol... 

Containers for Explosives. Zimmer Asaoka (Ref 1) have investigated various materials as candidates for fabricating containers that safely hold comparatively large loads of expl materials. The inspiration for this study came from earlier work at DuPont which led to the development of tote barricades" to protect personnel, hand-carting sensitive material, from the effects of an accidental explosion. These barricades withstood the expln of 2 grams of NG. The new sample carrier, to be explosion-safe, was reqd to withstand a min load of 5g expl sample, and was to be fabricated from a material which would form harmless fragments upon detonation of the expl... 

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