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Explosives Engineering by Paul W. Cooper is an advanced graduate-level text that covers the fundamental technologies behind the engineering of explosives and explosive systems. The book explores key topics such as chemistry, burning, detonation, shock waves, initiation theories, and scaling. Written for upper-division undergraduates or graduate scientists and engineers, it assumes knowledge of basic physics, chemistry, mechanics, and calculus. Based on graduate course lecture notes from the Department of Energy Laboratories, it is ideal as a core text for mining or military engineering courses, providing thorough understanding and practical tools for analysing and designing explosive-related challenges.
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This book is suited for graduate students, engineers, and scientists specialising in explosives technology, mining engineering, military engineering, or related fields. It requires a solid background in physics, chemistry, mathematics, and mechanics.

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This graduate text, and Cooper's companion introductory text ('Introduction to the Technology of Explosives'), serve the same markets as the explosives reference by Meyer, now in its 4th edition.

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This graduate text, and Cooper's companion introductory text, Introduction to the Technology of Explosives, serve the same markets as the successful explosives reference by Meyer, now in its 4th edition. VCH also published the International Journal of Propellants, Explosives, and Pyrotechnics. The resulting package would give VCH a major presence in the field.

This text presents the basic technologies used in the engineering of explosives and explosive systems, i.e., chemistry, burning, detonation, shock waves, initiation theories, and scaling. The book is written for upper-division undergraduate or graduate-level scientists and engineers, and assumes a good grasp of basic physics, chemistry, mechanics and mathematics through calculus. It is based on lecture notes used for graduate courses at the Dept. of Energy Laboratories, and could serve as a core text for a course at schools of mining or military engineering.

The intent of the book is to provide the engineer or scientist in the field with an understanding of the phenomena involved and the engineering tools needed to solve, design, and analyse a broad range of real problems.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780471186366

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 31 October 1996

Country: United States

Imprint: Wiley-VCH Publishers Inc.,U.S.

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 31.0mm

Width: 158.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 794g

Pages: 480

About the Author

Paul W. Cooper is the author of Explosives Engineering, published by Wiley.

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