This graduate text, and Cooper's companion introductory text ('Introduction to the Technology of Explosives'), serve the same markets as the successful explosives reference by Meyer, now in its 4th edition. VCH also published the International Journal of Propellants, Explosives, and Pyrotechnics. The resulting package would give VCH the major presence in the field.
This text presents the basic technologies used in the engineering of explosives and explosive systems, i.e., chemistry, burning, detonation, shock waves, initiation theories, scaling. The book is written for upper-division undergraduate or graduate-level scientists and engineers, and assumes a good grasp of basic physics, chemistry, mechanics and mathematic through calculus. It is based on lecture notes used for graduate courses at the Dept. of Energy Laboratories, and could serve as a core text for a course at schools of mining or military engineering. The intent of the book is to provide the engineer or scientist in the field with an understanding of the phenomena involved and the engineering tools needed to solve/ design/ analyze a broad range of real problems.
By:
Paul W. Cooper Imprint: Wiley-VCH Publishers Inc.,U.S. Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info] Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 158mm,
Spine: 31mm
Weight: 794g ISBN:9780471186366 ISBN 10: 0471186368 Pages: 480 Publication Date:13 January 1997 Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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A / AS level
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Further / Higher Education
Replaced By: 9780471744993 Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Paul W. Cooper is the author of Explosives Engineering, published by Wiley.