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Super compressed detonation method and device to effect such detonation

US8037831B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateNov 23, 2010
Grant dateOct 18, 2011
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Expiry dateNov 25, 2030

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  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF42B1/00
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A method for effecting physicochemical transformations and detonation properties in a material using super-compressed detonation includes: providing an insensitive energetic material to be compressed; super-compressing the material by exposure to at least one of a normally or obliquely oriented cylindrical imploding shock wave, generated from a first detonation; effecting transformations from the super-compression in the material including increasing at least material density, structural transformations and electronic energy gap transitions relative to a material unexposed to the super-compression; exposing the super-compressed material to a second detonation; and effecting transformations from the second detonation in the material including increasing at least detonation pressure, velocity and energy density relative to a material unexposed to the super-compression and second detonation.

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