ES&T Course Schedule - Petr Explosives Group.com

Optional Add-On Day: Hands-On High-Speed Imaging

Add-On – September 8 ^rd
8:30 to 9:00	Welcome & Introductions, Safety Training
9:00 to 10:00	Introduction to High-Speed / Ultra-High-Speed Imaging
10:00 to 10:30	Lenses and Optics in High-Speed / Ultra-High-Speed Imaging
10:30 to 11:00	Illumination and Lighting Considerations/Camera Triggering and Synchronization
11:00 to 12:00	Lunch Break
12:00 to 13:00	Hands-On: Shockwaves / Detonation / Deflagration
13:00 to 14:00	Hands-On: Schlieren/Shadowgraph Methods
14:00 to 16:00	Hands-On: Using Software to Analyze Test Results
16:00 to 17:00	Group Presentations, Discussion & Certificates

Day 1 – September 9^th

8:00 to 8:30

Registration & Safety Information

8:30 to 9:00

Welcome & Introductions

– Definitions, commercial and military applications

9:00 to 9:30

Chemistry I – Introduction to Energetic Materials

– What makes a material energetic?
– How do explosives, propellants and pyrotechnics differ from one another?
– Gas vs liquid vs solid
– What is the difference between an ingredient and a formulation?
– Commercial vs Military explosives (shelf life)
– Categories of explosives: primary, secondary, EIDS, binary, tertiary

9:45 to 10:15

Chemistry II – Ingredients of Energetic Materials

– Commonly used energetic ingredients and the structures that make them energetic
– Molecular explosives vs binary
– Types of effects and the energetic materials that produce them
– Ideal vs. Nonideal explosives: rate of energy delivery

10:30 to 11:00

Chemistry III – Formulations

– Formulations: putting the pieces together
– Heterogenous vs homogeneous; hot spots
– Processing: types of formulations and methods for assembling them
– Strategies for making the most of the ingredients

11:15 to 12:00

Initiation Theory & Systems
– Overview and comparisons
– DDT and firing train

12:00 to 13:00

Lunch Break

13:00 to 14:00

Discussion & Open Time

14:00 to 14:45

Shock Wave Physics – Theory

– What is a shock wave?
– Physical description
– Mathematical description
– Equation of State
– Frame of reference
– Reflection & Rarefaction waves

15:00 to 15:45

Detonation Physics I

– What is a detonation wave?
– Physical description
– Mathematical description
– Equation of State – Reactants and Products
– Mixture rules

15:00 to 15:45

Detonation Physics II

– Chapman-Jouguet detonation
– Overdriven detonation
– Ideal versus non-ideal- Simplified models
– Gurney equations
– Program Burn
– Reactive Burn models

17:00 to 18:00

Break

18:00 to 19:30

Welcome Banquet

Day 2 – September 10^th
8:00 to 9:00	Explosives Instrumentation and Diagnostics – Overview & comparisons – Active vs passive devices
9:00 to 9:45	Shock Wave Physics Blast Damage
10:00 to 10:45	Fragment Debris
11:00 to 11:45	Material Under Dynamic Load
11:45 to 12:00	Explosives Transportation & Storage
12:00 to 13:00	LunchBreak
13:00 to 14:45	Discussion & Open Time
14:45 to 15:30	Numerical Methods I – Why we need numerical models and how to use them: Eulerian, Lagrangian, ALE, and others – Implicit and explicit solvers – Conservation equations and conservation forms of numerical methods – Accuracy, stability, and verification
15:45 to 16:15	Numerical Methods II – Elements of a simple Eulerian hydrocode – Elements of a simple Lagrangian hydrocode – Issues associated with Eulerian methods – Issues associated with Lagrangian methods
16:30 to 17:00	Numerical Methods III – Examples with Eulerian methods – Examples with Lagrangian methods – Code verification – Model validation

Day 3 – September 11^th
8:00 to 9:00	3D Printing Manufacturing I
9:00 to 9:45	3D Printing Manufacturing II
10:00 to 10:45	Other Formulations – Propellants and Safety Considerations
11:00 to 11:30	Explosive Manufacturing – Nitrates, ANFO, HMX, RDX, emulsions – Factors affecting choice of manufacturing method (synthesis and formulations) – Examples of production of some common ingredients
11:30 to 12:00	Lunch Break
12:00 to 13:00	Discussion & Open Time
13:00 to 13:45	Applications I – Mining
14:00 to 14:45	Applications II – Metal Forming & Military
15:00 to 15:45	Applications III – Special Uses
16:00 to 16:45	Open Forum / Free Time

Day 4 – September ^12th
8:00 to 9:00	Laboratory & Test Procedure Safety I – Types of evaluation done early in development – Small-scale safety tests: what do they mean? – UN transportation material property characterization
9:00 to 9:45	Laboratory & Test Procedure Safety II – Large scale; case studies; DOT; aquarium tests; cylindrical tests – Safety requirements; Pressures of human damage; safe distances; blast shields
10:00 to 10:45	Laboratory & Test Procedure Safety III – Scale-up – DOE requirements – Safety requirements – Storage: indoor vs outdoor
11:00 to 12:00	Open Discussion/Wrap-Up; Certificates

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