Explosive System Design and Measurement

Applied Physics and Testing capabilities provide for the design of explosive systems, the evaluation of their vulnerability to hostile threats and the measurement of their performance.

• Explosive and reactive material characterization
• Unreacted hugoniots
• Chapman jouguet detonation pressure
• Initiation thresholds
• Shock, thermal, dielectric breakdown
• Radiation induced conductivity
• Near field airblast
• Growth to detonation modeling
• Explosively driven closure systems
• PRS debris mitigation systems
• Hazard containment systems
• Fast gate systems



Closure system installed in Z at Sandia National Laboratories


We provide custom explosive systems.



Debris Mitigation Systems

Hazard Containment Systems

Fast Gate Systems