This graduate text, and Cooper's companion introductory text ('Introduction to the Technology of Explosives'), serve the same markets as the successful explosives reference by Meyer, now in its 4th edition. VCH also published the International Journal of Propellants, Explosives, and Pyrotechnics. The resulting package would give VCH the major presence in the field. This text presents the basic technologies used in the engineering of explosives and explosive systems, i.e., chemistry, burning, detonation, shock waves, initiation theories, scaling. The book is written for upper-division undergraduate or graduate-level scientists and engineers, and assumes a good grasp of basic physics, chemistry, mechanics and mathematic through calculus. It is based on lecture notes used for graduate courses at the Dept. of Energy Laboratories, and could serve as a core text for a course at schools of mining or military engineering. The intent of the book is to provide the engineer or scientist in the field with an understanding of the phenomena involved and the engineering tools needed to solve/ design/ analyze a broad range of real problems.Concise descriptions of physical processes and underlying theory are expressed in terms useful for a wide range of readers engineers, scientists, and students who need to understand explosion problems and design applications; crime and accident scene investigators; and anyone concerned with regulatory and environmental issues involved in the transportation, storage, and commerce of explosive materials. Arrangement is in six sections covering the chemistry of explosives, energetics, shock waves, detonation, and initiation and initiators. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. |
