Ch. 1. Organic chemical nomenclature -- ch. 2. Oxidation -- ch. 3. Pure explosives -- ch. 4. Use forms of explosives -- ch. 5. Estimating properties of explosives -- ch. 6. Decomposition -- Ch. 7. Basic terms of thermodynamics -- ch. 8. Thermophysics -- ch. 9. Thermochemistry -- ch. 10. Group additivity -- ch. 11. Reaction temperature -- ch. 12. Closed-vessel calculations -- ch. 13. Estimating detonation properties -- ch. 14. Qualitative description of a shock wave -- ch. 15. The bead model -- ch. 16. Rankine-Hugoniot jump equations -- ch. 17. The hugoniot planes, U-u, P-v, P-u -- ch. 18. Interactions of shock waves -- ch. 19. Rarefaction waves -- ch. 20. Detonations, general observations -- ch. 21. Real effects in explosives -- ch. 22. Theories of initiation -- ch. 23. Nonelectric initiators -- ch. 24. Hot-wire initiators -- Ch. 25. Exploding bridgewire detonators -- Ch. 26. Theories of scaling -- ch. 27. Acceleration, formation, and flight of fragments -- ch. 28. Blast effects in air, water, and on the human body -- ch. 29. Scaling craters -- ch. 30. Jetting, shaped charges, and explosive welding.
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This title provides a unified engineering approach to the analysis, design, and applications of explosives. It gives engineers, scientists, and students the understanding and tools needed to solve, design, and analyse a broad range of real explosives-related problems.