Initiation train experiments to enable detonator diagnostics
Abstract
A measurement of when the detonator breaks out and lights an initiation train has been a desirable diagnostic for both modelers and experimentalists alike. A detonator diagnostic has been developed using magnet wire circuit to transmit a signal when the detonation wave breaks the cup. This is used to establish time zero for a variety of types of shots. This paper describes the design and testing challenges of this diagnostic, and the tests conducted to prove the concept. The value of this diagnostic is that it is an in situ measurement, meaning it can easily be housed inside the booster counterbore on the detonator face. It provides an unambiguous measurement of time zero, when coupled with diagnostics that supply detonator bridge burst information.
- Publication:
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19th Biennial APS Conference on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter
- Pub Date:
- January 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.4971743
- Bibcode:
- 2017AIPC.1793p0003F