TABLE OF CONTENTS Although the properties, manufacture, handling, storage and transport of high explosives are outside the scope of this book, it is necessary to make some brief mention of them.
Accounts of explosives are given in Explosives, Their Anatomy and Destructiveness (C.S. Robinson, 1944), The Science of High Explosives (M.A. Cook, 1958), Prevention of and Protection against Accidental Explosion of Fuel and Other Hazardous Mixtures (E. Cohen, 1968) and Detonics of High Explosives (Johansson and Persson, 1970).
Explosives are relevant to loss prevention in two areas in particular. These are (1) estimation of effects of explosions and (2) control of manufacture, handling, storage and transport of explosive materials.
Many of the data available on explosions and their effects and many of the methods of estimating these effects relate to explosives. In particular, the methods developed for calculating the effects of explosions are based mainly on the high explosive trinitrotoluene (TNT).
The hazard of explosives has long been recognized, and an approach has been developed for their control. Some aspects of this approach are applicable in the chemical industry also.
Selected references on explosives are given in Table 17.6.
| MoD, ESTC (n.d.); Upmann (1878); Berthelot (1892); Assheton (1930); Thomson (1941); Read (1942); T.L. Davis (1943); M. Meyer (1943); Lothrop and Handrick (1949); E. Fisher (1950, 1953a,b); Jarrett (1952, 1968); J. Taylor (1952); H. Watts (1954); Johansson, Persson and Selberg (1957); M.A. Cook (1958, 1960); Home Office (1958/7, 1972/3); |
