Work Capacity of Liquid Explosives

But for certain purpose, only one or several kinds of explosion are effective. The total work capacity of liquid explosives is expressed in Eq. 2.32. 

The sum of all explosion effect of liquid explosives for the surrounding media is the work of explosives, or the work capacity of explosives. The capacity is also the power of explosives. It can be calculated from theory or obtained from experiments. 

1 Ways to Express the Work Capacity of Liquid Explosives 

If the work of liquid explosives to the surrounding is done through the adiabatic expansion of high-temperamre and high-pressure gas products, according to the first law of thermodynamics, the decrease in the internal energy of a system is equal to the total released heat and work done to the surroundings. 

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From the theoretical expression of explosion work and extensive research, increasing the explosion heat helps to improve the working ability/capacity of an explosive. The study and application results of liquid explosives indicate that the gas products of liquid explosives are much more than condensed explosives, and when the specific volume is fixed, the work capacity of liquid explosives increases following the explosion heat. When the explosion heat increases up 100 J/gm, the wok capacity raises up 5-7 %. The generalized empirical formula is below... 

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