Explosives engineering
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Explosives engineering is the field of science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

 and engineering
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...

 which is related to examining the behavior and usage of explosive materials.

Topics

Some of the topics that explosives engineers study, research, and work on include:
  • Development and characterization of new explosive materials in various forms
    Use forms of explosives
    Explosive materials are produced in numerous physical forms for their use in mining, engineering, or military applications. The different physical forms and fabrication methods are grouped together in several Use forms of explosives....

  • Analysis of the physical process of detonation
    Detonation
    Detonation involves a supersonic exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front propagating directly in front of it. Detonations are observed in both conventional solid and liquid explosives, as well as in reactive gases...

  • Explosive generated shock wave
    Shock wave
    A shock wave is a type of propagating disturbance. Like an ordinary wave, it carries energy and can propagate through a medium or in some cases in the absence of a material medium, through a field such as the electromagnetic field...

    s and their effects on materials
  • Safety testing of explosives
    Safety Testing of Explosives
    The safety testing of explosives involves the determination of various properties of the different energetic materials that are used in commercial, mining, and military applications...

  • Analysis and engineering of rock blasting
    Rock blasting
    Rock blasting is the controlled use of explosives to excavate, break down or remove rock. It is practised most often in mining, quarrying and civil engineering such as dam or road construction...

     for mining
    Mining
    Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an ore body, vein or seam. The term also includes the removal of soil. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock...

  • Design and analysis of shaped charges and reactive armor
  • Design and analysis of military explosives such as shells, aerial bomb
    Aerial bomb
    An aerial bomb is a type of explosive weapon intended to travel through the air with predictable trajectories, usually designed to be dropped from an aircraft...

    s, missile warhead
    Warhead
    The term warhead refers to the explosive material and detonator that is delivered by a missile, rocket, or torpedo.- Etymology :During the early development of naval torpedoes, they could be equipped with an inert payload that was intended for use during training, test firing and exercises. This...

    s, etc.

Organizations

  • International Society of Explosives Engineers (ISEE) -
  • New Mexico Institute Of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech)

See also

  • Explosives
  • Chapman–Jouguet condition
  • Chemistry
    Chemistry
    Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....

  • Civil engineer
    Civil engineer
    A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering; the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.Originally, a...

  • Chemical engineer
    Chemical engineer
    In the field of engineering, a chemical engineer is the profession in which one works principally in the chemical industry to convert basic raw materials into a variety of products, and deals with the design and operation of plants and equipment to perform such work...

  • Gurney equations
    Gurney equations
    The Gurney equations are a set of mathematical formulas used in Explosives engineering to relate how fast an explosive will accelerate a surrounding layer of metal or other material when the explosive detonates...

  • Material science
  • Physics
    Physics
    Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

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