This blog focuses on the behaviors of energetic materials (such as solid rocket propellants, high explosives), shock waves, and explosions. And also on the protections, from the design of protecting materials and structures.
Lecture notes:
Topic: Physics of Explosions
Physics of Explosions – part I
Physics of Explosions – part II
Spalling and Fragmentation –I
Spalling and Fragmentation –II
Topic: High Energy Rate Processes
Energy Related Materials
Explosive Welding
Topic: Underwater Explosion
Underwater Explosion -part I
Underwater Explosion -part II
Tutorial questions
Tutorial solutions
Some links in iMechanica:
- Simulating explosions
- Time-History Analysis of Simple Structures under Shock
- catastrophic behaviors
- 爆炸力学的发展史
- Impact and explosion mechanics
Energy absorbing materials
- Is there a shear instability in metal foams?
- Metamaterials: negative mass density and anisotropic mass
- granular materials
- metal foam
- sandwich structures
Journals
Outside links:
- DYMAT (http://www.dymat.org/)
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (http://www.llnl.gov/)
Science and Technology Review (http://www.llnl.gov/str/) - "Shocking" Gas-Gun Experiments (http://www.llnl.gov/str/Holmes.html)
- Explosion