By Peter O. K. Krehl (auth.)
ISBN-10: 3540206787
ISBN-13: 9783540206781
This designated and encyclopedic reference paintings charts the evolution of the physics of concern waves and detonations from the earliest investigations into percussion and impression phenomena correct as much as the newest groundbreaking study within the box.
The historical past of this lengthy and complicated strategy is first reviewed in a normal survey that encompasses every little thing from the earliest observations and interpretations of difficult high-rate dynamic phenomena linked to average and man-made explosions to a dialogue of the benefits of recent numerical machine simulations.
The topic is then handled in additional element and in chronological order within the crucial portion of the publication, whereas additionally being richly illustrated in kind of an image gallery. The bibliographic index offers 122 brief biographies of eminent researchers who've contributed to the sphere. additional references for biographical resources are given, and either identify and topic indices (with over 4500 and 2700 entries, respectively) are provided.
"This ebook is of large worth to all who train, examine or write concerning the topic or, easily, are interested in the folk whose names look within the textual content or bibliographies. the complete neighborhood is indebted to Peter Krehl for what has essentially been a labour of affection and for what needs to absolutely develop into the "bible" of outrage waves, explosives and effect" Professor John E. box, FRS, Cavendish Laboratory, collage of Cambridge.
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J. Fluids Struct. 12, 103-121 (1998). 16 2 GENERAL SURVEY The term liquid impact encompasses the dynamics of liquids. Since the 1960s, this has become an area of interdisciplinary research stretching far beyond classical fluid dynamics and materials research {LESSER & FIELD ⇨1983}. S. COOK ⇨1928; ⇨Fig. 14−C}. S. Air Force ⇨1945; The Royal Society ⇨1965}, missiles and reentry vehicles {HEYMANN ⇨1969}. The phenomenon of liquid impact is also of interest in the production of high-speed liquid jets for effective cutting and cleaning operations in industry, and even in the design of lithotripters in medicine.
In: (hrsg. vom Verband dt. Physikalischer Gesellschaften) Max PLANCK. Physikalische Abhandlungen und Vorträge. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig (1958), Bd. III, pp. 364-367. 12 2 GENERAL SURVEY has created a wealth of new, related terms. The main technical terms used in the fields of percussion, collision, impact, explosions, detonations and shock waves are discussed below in more detail. 1 PERCUSSION, CONCUSSION, IMPACT, AND COLLISION Many early terms describing high-speed phenomena were derived from Latin, then the language used in most learned works: examples include the terms collision, percussion, explosion, and detonation, which are still in use today.
48 km), the fission energy is approximately distributed as follows: about 50% blast and shock, 35% thermal radiation, 5% initial nuclear radiation and 10% residual nuclear radiation. See S. GLASSTONE: The effects of nuclear weapons. S. Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, DC (1962), pp. 8-9. 20 Any 3-D explosion approaches a spherical explosion at a distance that is much larger than the geometrical dimensions of the source. Classic examples of spherical explosions include detonations of spherical charges of chemical explosives or nuclear devices, and electric discharges of capacitor banks over short spark gaps.
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