What are the three detonation effects and explain them?
Deformation: the surface of an object in direct contact with the charge is crumbled, cratered, depressed or indented from the compressive shock wave.
Spalling: the opposite side of the target is split or a hole is created because of the shock wave moving trough the target and chips away at the tensile strength
Radial Cracking: pressure load on the target will crack and displace material beyond the crater and the spall
Name the critical calculation factors.
type and strength of the target size, shape and configuration of the target desired demolition effect explosive type charge size and placement tamping method priming direction
Explain the explosive firing train.
primary explosive: most sensitive least powerful
secondary explosive: amplifies primary source most powerful
main charge: designed to produce specific explosive characteristic and effects
Talk through the six step problem solving format
All critical data Solve for P / by RE / by package size # of targets multiply steps 4 and 5
