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Ballistics, 2nd Edition
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Ballistics, 2nd Edition

by Donald E. Carlucci, Sidney S. Jacobson
August 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
608 pages
21h 36m
English
CRC Press
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528 Ballistics: Theory and Design of Guns and Ammunition
But β 0 as α 0 so
VD
max
= 2
(18.13)
Thus, the maximum jet velocity can never exceed twice the detonation velocity of the
explosive.
Another noteworthy observation is that as α 0 and β 0, V
s
0. Also as α 0, we
approach a cylindrical geometry of the liner. Cylindrical liners are well known for their
high velocity and low mass jets. If we could somehow generate an explosive wave that
moved perpendicular to a conical liner, we would see that β = α and the velocities of the jet
and slug, respectively, could be expressed as
V
V
j
=+
0
1
sin
(cos )
α
α
(18.14)
V
V
s
=−
()
0
1
sin
cos
α
α
(18.15)
With t
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