Shock Sensitivity in Detonation

Detonation, Shock Sensitivity in. Sensitivity to shock of explosives, which might also be called detonability by shock , has been recently measured, mostly by gap tests, using instead of air some plastic materials (such as Lucite) or cardboard for the gap. Some of these tests are described under DETONATION (AND EXPLOSION), EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES IN and also under DETONATION (AND EXPLOSION), INITIATION BY SHOCK  

Addnl Refs A) M.A. Cook L.L. Udy, Calibration of the Card-Gap Test , ARS-J 31, 52-7(1961) B) Donna Price Irving 

Large Scale Gap Test Interpretation of Results for Propellants , ARS-J 31, 595-96(1961) C) I. Jaffe, R. Beauregard A. Amster, Determination of the Shock Pressure Required to Initiate Detonation of an Acceptor in the Shock Sensitivity Test , ARS-J 32, 22-5(1962) D) J. Toscano, I. Jaffe G. Robertson, Large Scale Sensitivity Test Comparison of Tetryl and Pentolite Donors , AIAA-J 1, 

964-66(1963) E) M.C. Chick, The Effect of Interstitial Gas on the Shock Sensitivity of Low Density Compacts , 4th-ONRSympDeton (1965), 349-58 

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