Underwater Detonation and Explosion

Donna Price (Ref 10) tabulated the underwater performance data, as well as the estimated energies of deton for various expls 

Explosive Equivalent Weight Relative To Pentolite Indices of Overall Performance Calcd Heat of Detonation cal/g 

Methods of measuring underwater shock waves by crusher gauges, diaphragm gauges piezoelectric gauges are thoroughly described by Cole (Ref 3) in Chapter 7. Cook (Ref 7) describes the use of a 16- to 64-frame/sec camera to measure the free surface vel produced by a shock wave at the surface, and the determination of the underwater pressure-distance curve for TNT 

Refs 1) J.G. Kirkwood E.W. Montroll, The Pressure Wave Produced by an Underwater Explosion , OSRD Rept 676(1942) PB32183 2) Division 2 NDRC, Interim Report on Underwater Explosives and Explosions , UE-32 OSRD 4874, March-April. (1945) 3) R.H. 

Underwater Explosions , Princeton-UnivPress, Princeton, NJ (1948) 4) H.G. 

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