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E. Y. McGann, A Safety, Quality, and Cost Effectiveness Study of Composition, Press Loading Parameters, TR 76-1, Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White... 

Pittman, J. F. 1972. Blast and Fragment Hazards from Bursting High Pressure Tanks. NOLTR 72-102. Silver Spring, Maryland U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory. 

Naval Ordnance Laboratory —paper presented at meeting American Ordnance Association, Philadelphia, Pa (Oct 1956) 6) Anon, Firing Re-... 

Explosives In Enclosed Spaces , U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory NavOrd Reports 2934 and 3890 Sixth Symposium on Combustion, Relnhold Publishers, Inc. N.Y., 1957 p. 648... 

Explosives, Propellants and Pyrotechnic Safety Covering Laboratory, Pilot Plant and Production Operations Manual AD-272-424, Washington, US Naval Ordnance Laboratory, 1962... 

The most common SMAs are nickel-titanium alloys and copper alloys of various kinds. Nitinol, a specific alloy of nickel (Ni) and titanium (Ti), is probably the most widely used. (The word nitinol comes from the chemical symbols of its two metal components, along with an abbreviation for the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, where this alloy was discovered and studied in the early 1960s.) Although nickel and titanium alloys tend to be more expensive than copper materi-... 

Wilham J. Buehler and his colleagues at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in White Oak, Maryland, describe the shape-memory alloy known as nitinol. 

NOLR ini (1952) Collective, "Ordnance Explosive Train, Designers Handbook , NOLR (Naval Ordnance Laboratory. Report) 1111, USGovtPtgOff, Washington, DC (1952)... 

Fio 4 The Naval Ordnance Laboratory gap test for solids. The gap consists of a varying number of cellulose scetate cards, 0.25 mm. thick. The witness plate is steel... 

Exploding Bridge Wire Initiation of Explosives. The following NOLTR s (Naval Ordnance Laboratory Technical Reports), White Oak, Maryland 20910 on "Initiation of Explosives by Exploding Wires , are listed in Expls Pyrots, Vol 1, No 7(1973) They are all authored by H-S, Leopold ... 

Note All of these Refs are available from Defense Documentation Center, Cameron Sta, Alexandria, Virginia 22314 or from Commander (Code 242), US Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Md 20910... 

Fire Aboard USS Forrestal in 1967, during which the bombs started to explode 90 seconds after the fire began, thus killing the first wave of fire-fighters, brought to prominence the necessity of increasing the "cook-off period in bombs to at least 5 minutes. This task was achieved at the US Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Md, 20910 by die method briefly described in Expls Pyrots 3(3)(1970). See also Fire Resistant Coatings for Bombs in this Vol... 

Designers Handbook , Naval Ordnance Laboratory Report, NOLR 1111(1952), p g2... 

Mortimer J. Kamlet Ai p S. J. Jacobs United States Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Silver Spring, Maryland (Received 19 June 1967)... 

E. A, Christian and H. G. Snay, Analysis of Experimental Data on Detonation Velocities, U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory Rept., NavOrd-1508, 1951. 

H. Hurwitz, Calculation of Detonation Parameters with the RUBY Code, U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory Rent. NOLTR 63-205 (1965). 

N. Holland, ed. "Exploslves-Effects and Properties," U. S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory Rept. NOLTR 65-218, 1967. r W. E. Deal. Phys. Fluids 1, 523 (1958). 

Colebum now feels that his results for EDNA hill out of line with most of his other measurements, and he attributes this to difficulties in reading the photographic records in this set of experiments. N. L. Colebum, U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory (private communication). 

The criterion used at TCC-RMD to detect the detonation is to measure the velocity of the detonation wave. The constant current resistance wire method, originally developed at the U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory (7), is the technique used. This method depends on the high degree of ionization existing in the reaction zone of a detonation. The advancing detonation front completes the circuit between a central resistance wire and another conductor, which may be the metal test container or a separate wire, maintained at ground potential. The method provides a permanent record of a complete and accurate history of a detonation as it passes through a container of any size or shape. Needless... 

U. S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory, NAVORD Rept. 6280 (March 16,... 

Bement, L.). (1970) Application of temperature resistant explosives to NASA missions. Proc. Symp. on Thermally Stable Explosives, Naval Ordnance Laboratory, Whiteoak, Md, 1970. 

Introduction of Conjugation The best example of imparting higher thermal stability through the introduction of conjugation in explosive molecules is hexanitrostilbene (HNS), synthesized by Shipp [58, 59] of the US Naval Ordnance Laboratory (NOL) in 1964. Plants for full-scale production exist in the UK and China, based on the method of Shipp [60]. It has proved its efficiency as a heat-resistant explosive as well as a component of heat-resistant formulations employed in the Apollo spaceship and for seismic experiments on the moon [61]. HNS has also been reported for use in achieving stage separation in space rockets. 

Ayres, J.N., Montesi, L.J., and Bauer, R.J. (1973) Naval Ordnance Laboratory Technical Report (NOLTR)... 

Kilmer, E.E. (1973) HNS/teflon explosive charges for the Apollo 17 seismic experiments. LSPE, Naval Ordnance Laboratory TR No.73-44. 

Electrically Initiated Explosive Devices, Bridgewire Welding for. See Hugh.H. Snider et al, NOLTR 65-37 (26 Feh 1965), Naval Ordnance Laboratory... 

Tests at The Naval Ordnance Laboratory. Two apparatuses have been used at NOL. The first wapproaching-electrode apparatus used in the ERDE laboratory. This apparatus has apparently not been used for recent tests at NOL, presumably because it is inconvenient and time consuming (Ref 35, p 27)... 

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