Initiation of secondary explosives by microwave discharge; Maikuroha hoden ni yoru kayakurui no kibaku
Kazuo Hasue, K Nakasha, S. Nakahara, Yoshio Nikawa · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 1995
Microwave at 2450MHz was used to initiate secondary explosives. In this experiment, an explosive was initiated by electric discharge in tie shell caused by pulse wave irradiation. The pulse waves were generated at less anode current than CW mode. Five kinds of secondary explosives such as PETN, RDX, HMX, Tetryl and TNT were confined in the shell. All sample shells of PETN, RDX and HMX exploded and half numbers of shells of Tetryl exploded but no sample shells of TNT exploded. The order of microwave powers for initiation of explosives were PETN, RDX and HMX. In the case of RDX and HMX whose particle sizes were in the same region, the smaller particle size explosive required less microwave power. 3 refs., 8 figs., 2 tabs.