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Research and Development of High-performance Explosives
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2016
Developmental testing of high explosives for military applications involves small-scale formulation, safety testing, and finally detonation performance tests to verify theoretical calculations. This paper will share typical development tests associated with the measurement of detonation velocity and detonation pressure.
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Minimum Burning Pressures of Water-based Emulsion Explosives
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2017
We present an apparatus based on hot-wire ignition in a pressurized enclosure and an associated methodology to measure the minimum pressure required to induce sustained combustion in water-based emulsion explosives. This method improves product characterization to allow one to use them more safely during pumping and mixing operations.
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Coulomb Explosion Imaging as a Tool to Distinguish Between Stereoisomers
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2017
For small chiral species, Coulomb Explosion Imaging provides a new approach to determine the handedness of individual molecules.
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Standardized Method for Measuring Collection Efficiency from Wipe-sampling of Trace Explosives
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2017
Optimized sampling protocols and the development of new wipe materials can be facilitated by standardized measurements of collection efficiency from wipe-sampling. Our approach for sampling trace explosives uses an automated device to control speed, force, and distance during wipe-sampling followed by extraction of collected explosives.
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Quantitative Detection of Trace Explosive Vapors by Programmed Temperature Desorption Gas Chromatography-Electron Capture Detector
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2014
Trace explosive vapors of TNT and RDX collected on sorbent-filled thermal desorption tubes were analyzed using a programmed temperature desorption system coupled to GC with an electron capture detector. The instrumental analysis is combined with direct liquid deposition method to reduce sample variability and account for instrumentation drift and losses.
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Confinement can make a fire explosion more severe because accumulated flammable vapors, dust, or gases allow combustion to accelerate while expanding gases have less space to disperse. The resulting pressure release becomes an important exposure variable for biological studies, since blast effects may occur alongside heat, intense light, smoke, and toxic combustion products.
Each requirement controls whether combustion can accelerate: fuel supplies material to burn, oxygen supports combustion, and ignition initiates the event. The form and accumulation of the fuel matter because flammable vapors, dust, or gases can build up before ignition. Recognizing these interacting conditions helps explain why some settings present greater explosion-related hazards than others.
Biological consequences cannot be inferred from pressure alone. A fire explosion may expose living systems to blast, heat, intense light, smoke, and toxic combustion products during the same event. Separating these stressors conceptually helps researchers relate observed damage or impairment to the relevant exposure and evaluate effects at cellular, tissue, organism, or ecosystem scales.
Fire Explosion studies can connect physical exposure to biological response by examining how blast, heat, smoke, and toxic combustion products affect cells and tissues. The focus can also include how organisms respond after the event, not only immediate effects. This connection supports biological interpretation of fire-related damage and informs laboratory safety.
An organism-level assessment should consider exposure to blast, heat, smoke, and toxic combustion products rather than treating the event as a single stress. Researchers can then relate those exposures to effects on organisms and to later recovery. This approach is relevant to emergency planning and to evaluating biological consequences after fire-related incidents.
At the ecosystem scale, the key outcome is understanding how fire-related disturbance affects living systems and how recovery unfolds afterward. Fire Explosion research can contribute to wildfire impact assessment by connecting immediate physical and chemical exposures with longer-term ecological responses. This perspective extends analysis beyond individual injury to ecosystem condition and recovery.
Laboratory and field safety programs can use this knowledge to recognize settings in which fuel, oxygen, ignition, and accumulated flammable material may combine dangerously. The same understanding supports emergency planning by anticipating that one event can produce pressure, heat, smoke, intense light, and toxic products. These hazards require biological and operational evaluation together.