Explosive forming is a metalworking technique in which an explosive charge is used instead of a punch or press. It can be used on materials for which...

An explosively formed penetrator (EFP), also known as an explosively formed projectile, a self-forging warhead, or a self-forging fragment, is a special...

Explosive materials are produced in numerous physical forms for their use in mining, engineering, or military applications. The different physical forms...

of energy. Applications of explosive devices include: Building implosion (demolition) Excavation Explosive forming Explosive welding Mining of minerals...

An explosive (or explosive material) is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released...

An improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action. It may be constructed of conventional...

High-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) is the effect of a shaped charge explosive that uses the Munroe effect to penetrate heavy armor. The warhead functions...

Plastic explosive is a soft and hand-moldable solid form of explosive material. Within the field of explosives engineering, plastic explosives are also...

A shaped charge is an explosive charge shaped to focus the effect of the explosive's energy. Different types of shaped charges are used for various purposes...

example of forming processes are: Forging Extrusion Rolling Sheet metal working Rotary swaging Thread rolling Explosive forming Electromagnetic forming Plastic...

In general, it is a device composed of several explosive charges. These charges are arranged and formed with the intent to control the shape of the detonation...

Explosive antimony is an allotrope of the chemical element antimony that is so sensitive to shock that it explodes when scratched or subjected to sudden...

High explosive squash head (HESH) A high-explosive squash head (HESH), in British terminology, or a high-explosive plastic/plasticized (HEP), in American...

phlegmatize in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A phlegmatized explosive is an explosive that has had an agent (a phlegmatizer) added to stabilize or desensitize...

An explosive booster is a sensitive explosive charge that acts as a bridge between a (relatively weak) conventional detonator and a low-sensitivity (but...

RDX (abbreviation of "Research Department eXplosive" or Royal Demolition eXplosive) or hexogen, among other names, is an organic compound with the formula...

contact explosives have varying amounts of energy sensitivity, they are all much more sensitive relative to other kinds of explosives. Contact explosives are...

topics that explosives engineers study, research, and work on include: Development and characterization of new explosive materials in various forms Analysis...

Polymer-bonded explosives, also called PBX or plastic-bonded explosives, are explosive materials in which explosive powder is bound together in a matrix...

variety of the plastic explosive family known as Composition C, which uses RDX as its explosive agent. C-4 is composed of explosives, plastic binder, plasticizer...

In volcanology, an explosive eruption is a volcanic eruption of the most violent type. A notable example is the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. Such...

Magnetic pulse Explosive forming Electroforming Staking Seaming Flanging Straightening Decambering Cold sizing Hubbing Hot metal gas forming Curling (metalworking)...

relatively safely packaged forms. By design there are low explosives and high explosives made such that the low explosives are highly sensitive (i.e....

vacuum bomb, is a type of explosive munition that works by dispersing an aerosol cloud of gas, liquid or powdered explosive. The fuel is usually a single...

Bomb disposal is an explosives engineering profession using the process by which hazardous explosive devices are disabled or otherwise rendered safe. Bomb...

8, making it the largest-known explosive volcanic eruption in the Quaternary, and one of the largest known explosive eruptions in the Earth's history...

Sheet explosives are materials formed by combining an explosive with a "rubberizer" — a flexible binding agent. The resulting compound is cast into a...

Nizh (Ukrainian: Ніж, lit. 'knife') is a brand of explosive reactive armour designed by the Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau and manufactured...

A binary explosive or two-component explosive is an explosive consisting of two components, neither of which is explosive by itself, which have to be mixed...

shell, in a military context, is a projectile whose payload contains an explosive, incendiary, or other chemical filling. Originally it was called a bombshell[citation...