Detonation Science & Technology Facilities
Facility Description
The Detonation Science & Technology Facility is housed in three technical areas.
At TA-22 we research and develop high-energy detonators and related devices; fabricate detonators, cables and firing systems; qualify detonator performance; and perform other detonator testing.
At TA-39 we perform gas-gun-driven shockwave and isobaric expansion experiments to characterize the equation-of-state of energetic materials. We perform shockwave physics experiments on a two-stage light gas gun and a smaller single-stage gun. We use a high-pressure isobaric expansion setup to perform pulse-heated liquid metal experiments.
At TA-40 we study the equation-of-state characteristics and properties of high explosives and inert materials. Our capabilities also include experimental, theoretical, and computational studies of energetic material initiation and detonation physics and chemistry. We conduct experiments to test advanced hydrodynamic designs for systems such as explosive lenses and penetrators.
Equipment
- explosives loading and assembling facility
- laser velocity interferometry
- electronic and mechanical streak and framing cameras
- laser photography
- small scale explosive testing (nanosecond or sub-nanosecond resolution
- beamcode laser special profiles
- laser welding of explosive detonator cable assemblies
- fabrication of experimental explosive assemblies
- clean room explosive facilities
- VISAR interferometer
- single-stage gas dun for inert material testing
- two-stage gas gun (8 km/s) for inert material testing
- nanosecond time resolution digitizers
- a high-pressure isobaric expansion setup
- electronic streak and framing camera
- laser based sound speed measurement system
- dynamic spectroscopic equipment
- Fabry-Perot interferometer
- open firing chambers (25 kg)
- enclosed firing chamber (10 kg)
- a single-gas gun for explosive testing
- a two-stage gun for explosive testing
- multiple magnetic particle velocity measuring equipment
- dynamic pressure measuring equipment
- electronic steak and framing cameras
- rotating mirror streak and framing cameras
- nanosecond time resolution digitizers
- dynamic spectroscopic equipment
- laser and electric detonator test equipment
- HP-712 & 735 workstations
- MAC and PC computers networked on Ethernet
Facility Access
Classified area
Last Update: 25 June 2003
Technical Contact
B. Pruit Ginsberg
DX-1
Mail Stop: P950
Phone: 505-667-6760
Fax: 505-667-6301
E-mail Address: bpg@lanl.gov
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