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Explosives - ZPEM3107
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Campus: University College Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 5
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: ZPEM2102 and ZPEM2113
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 5 (more info)
 
   
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

History of energetic materials: black powder to modern explosives. Free radical mechanisms of fuel oxidation and explosive combustion. Thermal explosions. Thermodynamic methods for obtaining maximum temperatures and pressures of explosions. Decomposition and detonation mechanisms and models for energetic materials. Techniques for investigating very fast reactions. Collision and activated complex theories of reaction kinetics. Insensitive munitions. Classification of explosives. Manufacture, properties and applications of military and commercial explosives. Physical and chemical methods of explosives detection.

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