Location: Oaks, Pennsylvania, USA, the home of Franklin Applied Physics, Inc.
Lectures Times: 9:00 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Thursday, and finishing at noon on Friday.
Cost: US$1226.00.
This course is for electroexplosive device (EED) handlers, their supervisors, safety engineers, and instructors. It is also for designers, R&D personnel, quality control personnel, and inspectors.
For further details and appliction form please course info.pdf
TOPICS COVERED:
- Nature of Explosions – Mechanical, Nuclear, Chemical Definitions
- Chemistry of explosives and Explosions
- Explosive Trains – Primary, Booster, Secondary
- Safe and Arm – Separation, One Person, Insertion, Mechanical, Automatic, Bore-riding, Set-back, Spin, etc.
- Ignition of EEDs – Bridge types, Energy (short time), Power (long time)
- Inadvertent Ignition of EEDs – Wrong time, Batteries, Galvanic Cell, Ground Currents, Electrostatic (ESD), Radio Frequency (RF), Stray Voltage, Lightning
- Physical Effects of Explosions
- Uses of Electro Explosive Devices (EEDs)
- Quality Control of EEDs – Non-destructive tests, All-fire/ No Fire tests, Output tests
- Definitions – Classify by use
- High Explosives
- Detonation and Effects
- Propellants – Guns, Rockets
- Pyrotechnics
- Testing Explosives
- Accident Protection
- Storage & Shipment
- History
- Sources of Information
James G. Stuart, Ph.D.
Franklin Applied Physics, Inc.
98 Highland Avenue, PO Box 313
Oaks, Pennsylvania 19456-0313 U.S.A.
Tel (610) 666-6645, Fax (610) 666-0173
www.franklinphysics.com
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