Blast Waves

1. Introduction
Charles E. Needham

2. Some Basic Air Blast Definitions
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3. The Rankine-Hugoniot Relations
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4. Formation of Blast Waves
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5. Ideal High Explosive Detonation Waves
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6. Cased Explosives
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7. Blast Wave Propagation
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8. Boundary Layers
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9. Particulate Entrainment and Acceleration
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10. Instabilities
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11. Measurement Techniques
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12. Scaling Blast Parameters
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13. Blast Wave Reflections
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14. Height of Burst Effects
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15. Structure Interactions
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16. External Detonations
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17. Internal Detonations
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18. Simulation Techniques
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19. Some Notes on Non-ideal Explosives
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20. Modeling Blast Waves
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21. Blast Loads on Animals
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Keywords: Engineering, Engineering Fluid Dynamics, Fluid- and Aerodynamics, Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Safety in Chemistry, Dangerous Goods