Understanding Explosives: Types, Mechanisms, and Ignition

What is an Explosive?

An explosive is a material that undergoes rapid decomposition or oxidation when initiated by heat or electric shock. This process releases gaseous compounds that occupy a significantly larger volume than the original material. The rapid expansion displaces large volumes of air, creating a sonic boom due to the expansion rate exceeding the speed of sound.

Types of Explosives

High-Order Explosives

High-order explosives detonate. Detonation occurs only in high-order explosives and

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Electrical Cable Protection: Overcurrent, Overvoltage & Fault Detection

Protection Against Overcurrent and Overvoltage

The goal of protecting cables and limiting surge currents is to prevent them from exceeding their maximum allowable temperatures and to prevent potential fires.

Overloads

A facility or part of it is considered to be subject to an overload when, for some time, it is traversed by a current greater than the normal or assigned current, without any malfunction or failure in the installation. In short, the surge produces a reduction in the life of conductors.

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Electrical Installations in Homes and Buildings: A Comprehensive Guide

Electrical Installations in Homes and Buildings

Introduction

The increasing complexity of electrical installations in buildings requires professionals to consult regulations, standards, and manuals for practical application. This guide provides an overview of the main components of electrical installations in homes and buildings.

Parts of an Electrical Installation in a Home

The main parts include the service entrance, main panel, branch circuits, outlets, and fixtures. A sketch of a typical installation

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Materials Science: A Comprehensive Guide

Alloys, Fluxes, and Steelmaking

What are the alloys and fluxes in the oven?

Fluxes remove slag, while ferroalloys improve steel properties.

Why can’t converters be added with pig iron and fluxes at the beginning?

Ferroalloys and fluxes would be removed with the initial slag.

What is the hottest part of the blast furnace where iron ore melts?

The bosh.

How is steel produced?

By blast furnace, furnace refining, and electric oven.

Blast Furnace Operation

Iron ore, fluxes, and coke are introduced. As they descend,

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Hard Disk Drives and Storage Principles

Storage Principles

Magnetic Storage

Devices using this principle have a storage area consisting of many magnetic particles:

A particle oriented in one direction stores a logical 1, while another particle oriented in another direction stores a logical 0. These devices have read heads (a small coil of wire that when a current passes through it, creates a magnetic field that polarizes a point on the surface) and writing heads (the current in the coil comes from the own magnetic field of the magnetized

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Mechanical Coupling Elements and Joining Techniques

Mechanical Coupling Elements and Joining Techniques

Gears

Pinion Gear

A normal 13-tooth pinion gear meshes with another gear whose radius is infinite. This system’s function is reversible.

  • If the pinion is fixed and the rack moves, the pinion rotates without moving the rack.
  • If the pinion rotates while the rack is fixed, the rack will move.

Screw-Nut

The screw-nut mechanism is used to turn the screw while preventing the nut from turning. The concept of a screw propeller is derived from a ramp wrapped around

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