Testing and Evaluation of Explosives

On completion of the course the delegates will:

• Understand the requirement for test arena set up
• Be able to discuss the differences between UN and IM testing
• Understand equipment requirements for measuring explosives for performance
• Derive statistical errors associated with experimental data
• Have an awareness of UK approaches to testing procedures.

• Content Chemistry Powder tests
• Charge tests
• System tests
• Environmental tests (shake, rattle, roll)
• Stability and compatibility of energetic components
• Engineering Instrumentation and techniques for measuring output from explosives and their articles
• Summary of small arms, gun systems, rockets and pyrotechnics measuring in their expected outputs
• Documentation Legislation and case studies
• Range Management Requirements
• Practical Planning, preparation, testing and reporting of trials requirements.

This short course, which will be taught at MSc standard, is one of the modules that comprise the MSc Explosives Ordnance Engineering.