The effect of explosive charge backing in close-proximity air-blast loading

This paper presents new insights into the influence of explosive charge backing on impulse transfer and transient response characteristics plates subjected to close-proximity air blast loading. The results combine experimental computational studies show critical backing, which caused between a 3-5 times increase in when was metal-backed. permanent deflections from metal-backed detonations were larger than for air, but not same degree as increase. These findings demonstrate important close proximity detonations, greatly exceeded anything previously measured. valuable will assist protection engineers considering effects explosions situations is something other frequent occurrence explosion scenarios.