Masters Theses

Abstract

"Ammonium nitrate has been known to the explosive industry for a long time. Compelled by the ever increasing mining costs, in 1954 "Akremite" was introduced to the market. It is a simple carbonaceous ammonium nitrate mixture and is the cheapest explosive available to the open-pit operators.

During the following years considerable amount of research was done, resulting among others with the introduction of ammonium nitrate-hydrocarbon mixtures as an explosive. During the Second World War research was done toward the refinement of the hydrodynamic theory. Several methods of calculating the detonation velocities of the explosives were introduced: Brown (1942), Kistiakowski and Wilson (1942), and Brinkley and Wilson (1943). During the post-war period two more methods were introduced, namely by Cook (1947-8) and by Taylor and Patterson (1949).

This thesis concerns mainly with the behavior of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil No. 2 mixture. The Taylor's method has been chosen to check the experimental data.

Experiments were performed during the period July - November 1957"--Introduction, page 1.

Advisor(s)

Clark, George Bromley, 1912-

Department(s)

Mining Engineering

Degree Name

M.S. in Mining Engineering

Publisher

Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy

Publication Date

1958

Pagination

v, 48 pages

Note about bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 46).

Rights

© 1958 Mohammad Azhari Warga-Dalem, All rights reserved.

Document Type

Thesis - Open Access

File Type

text

Language

English

Subject Headings

Explosives -- Testing
Ammonium nitrate fuel oil
Detonation waves -- Mathematical models

Thesis Number

T 1180

Print OCLC #

5924065

Electronic OCLC #

931997262

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