Ammunition and explosives – Shells – Focused or directed detonation
Reexamination Certificate
2010-11-23
2011-10-18
Felton, Aileen B (Department: 1731)
Ammunition and explosives
Shells
Focused or directed detonation
C149S109600
Reexamination Certificate
active
08037831
ABSTRACT:
A method for effecting physicochemical transformations and detonation properties in a material using super-compressed detonation includes: providing an insensitive energetic material to be compressed; super-compressing the material by exposure to at least one of a normally or obliquely oriented cylindrical imploding shock wave, generated from a first detonation; effecting transformations from the super-compression in the material including increasing at least material density, structural transformations and electronic energy gap transitions relative to a material unexposed to the super-compression; exposing the super-compressed material to a second detonation; and effecting transformations from the second detonation in the material including increasing at least detonation pressure, velocity and energy density relative to a material unexposed to the super-compression and second detonation.
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Higgins Andrew J.
Murray Stephen Burke
Zhang Fan
Felton Aileen B
Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada as represented by the
Koenig Hans
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