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1952

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Shaped Charges: Their Mechanism And Applications In Mining, Pranlal Girdharlal Sheth Jan 1952

Shaped Charges: Their Mechanism And Applications In Mining, Pranlal Girdharlal Sheth

Doctoral Dissertations

"A shaped charge, confined or unconfined, is a unit of explosive material with a cavity or hollow at the base. It behaves differently than an ordinary charge, and, when detonated, has been found to produce curious effects of concentrating the force of the explosive on an area opposite the cavity"--Introduction, page 1.