The application of the cylinder test to determine the energy characteristics of industrial explosives

Authors: W. A. Trzciński, S. Cudził

The work attempts to apply results produced by the so-called "cylinder test" for the estimation of some energy characteristics of industrial explosives.

Representative explosives as used in commercial mining containing ammonium nitrate, trinitrotoluene and aluminium powder formed the subject of the research.

For each explosive, a cylinder test was conducted and its results were then used to determine the detonation energy and the acceleration capability of the products of detonation.

It was also shown that the cylinder test results enable the expansion work of the gaseous detonation products to be calculated.