Exploding Wires: Based on Conference on the Exploding Wire Phenomenon, April, 1959. Conducted by Geophysics Research Directorate, Air F

ISBN-13: 9781461589778 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 373 str.

William G. Chace; Howard K. Moore

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This book is presented primarily to record the papers of the Conference on the Exploding Wire Phenomenon conducted by the Air Force Cambridge Research Center in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 2 and 3, 1959. A second and scarcely less important purpose of this book is to serve as a monograph on exploding wires. Nowhere in any language is there a book, or for that matter a section of a book, on electrical wire explosions. The growing interest in and import- ance of the phenomenon was indicated by the very gratifying re- sponse to the Confe: rence invitations. We hope this book, reaching an even larger audience, will fill a gap in the literature as well as serve as a record of the Conference. A logical arrangement of the papers was extremely difficult to accomplish. On whatever basis they were classified, most papers could have been equally well placed in more than one category. This difficulty was solved by arranging them in three broad classes. If this book is to serve as a monograph, some gene: ral back- ground in the exploding wire phenomenon (EWP) is needed. The Introduction was written to serve this purpose. It is, of course, impossible to thank all those without whose help the Conference and this book would not have been possible.

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A Brief Survey of Exploding Wire Research.- Theoretical and Experimental.- The Current Pause in an Exploding Wire.- Submicrosecond Wire Exploding Studies at Electro-Optical Systems, Inc..- Conductivity During “Dwell Timew” of a Wire Explosion.- The Electrical Behavior of Fine Wires Exploded by a Coaxial Cable Discharge System.- Large Exploding Wires—Correlation to Small Wires and Pause Time versus Length Dependency.- Use of the “Action Integral” in Exploding Wire Studies.- Exploding Wire Phenomena at Reduced Pressures.- The NRL - AFSWP Exploded Wire Research Program.- The Pinch Effect in the Exploding Wire Phenomenon.- Radiometric Temperature Measurements of Exploding Wires.- Radial Distribution of Current and Its Effect in an Exploding Wire.- The Cinemicroscopic Observation of Exploding Wires.- Studies of Exploding Wire Phenomenon by Use of Kerr Cell Schlieren Photography.- Shock Waves.- Flow Fields Produced by Exploded Wires.- Theoretical Analysis of the Hydrodynamic Flow in Exploding Wire Phenomena.- On the Propagation of Cylindrical Shock Waves.- Exploding Wires, Calculation of Heating.- Applications and Technique.- Bonding Experiments with Exploding Foils.- Image Formation of the Rapid Vaporization of Metal Filaments in Vacuo by the Sensitization and Autoradiographic Methods.- Applications of the Exploding Wire Technique in Photochemistry..- A Reliable Three-Channel Delayed Wire Exploder Unit.- High Power Pulse Steepening by Means of Exploding Wires.- High Voltage, Quick-Acting Fuse to Protect Capacitor Banks.- High-Speed Framing Camera for Photographing Exploding Wire Phenomena.- Exploding Wire Plasma Accelerator.