Three-legged table sensitivity test

Detonation, Three-Legged Table Sensitivity Test. See under DETONATION (AND EXPLOSION) BY INFLUENCE, Section 6... 

Booster-Gap Explosive Sensitivity Test of Cole Edwards, described in detail in USP 2832213(1958) (Ref 17). It was claimed to be more reliable and less ex. pensive than the card test (See after "card-gap test") and the three-legged table test, described here after "shock-pass-heat-filter test . The "booster-gap test serves for evaluating shock sensitivity of liquid explosives. It includes a set of snug-fitting telescopic cardboard tubes (ca 1 inch diam) and a cylindrical wooden block for holding the electric blasting cap, Tetryl booster pellet, circular spacer cards, and the cup with liquid explosive (to test) fit compactly in the cardboard tubes when... 

O. Murata, JlndExplSocJapan 17, 102-11 (1956) 8 CA 50, 17454(1956) (Deton by influence) 16) G.R. McVey St V.M. Boyle, "Sympathetic Detonation in Composition B Induced by Air Shock from Pentolite and from Composition B , BRL Rept 1048(1956) 16a) PATR 2510(1958), p Ger 52 (Four-cartridge test) 17) J.B. Cole, G.D. Edwards St T.K. Rice, USP 2832213(1958) (Booster-gap explosive sensitivity test claimed to give more reliable results than the "card and "three-legged table tests) 18) Cook (1958), 189-90 (Designation of "donor St "receptor and "shock-pass-heat-filter method) 194-97 (Deton by influence - testing by air-gap method and a brief discussion on testing thru gap filled with water, mud or solids some theoretical discussion on deton by influence) ... 

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