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A description is given of a high-resolution streak camera and of an experimental method whereby streak camera records and electrical measurements of exploding wires may be accurately correlated in time. Composite data together with derived values of resistance, power and energy are given for 4 and 5 mil Cu wires at several voltages. These data are compared with the experimental and theoretical results of other workers. From the comparison a coherent model of the exploding wire phenomenon emerges which differs in some details, particularly those having to do with electric arc formation, from models proposed earlier. The transfer of energy from electrical to fluid mechanical form is discussed as are problems having to do with formation of the shock waves. (Author).
The bibliography includes abstracts of reports on the exploding conductor (exploding wire) phenomenon published from 1774 through 1966. There is also some coverage of important papers in adjacent areas of spectroscopy and instrumentation. Arrangement is by subject group, alphabetically by authors.
This book is presented primarily to record the papers of the Conference on the Exploding Wire Phenomenon conducted by the Air Force Cambridge Research Center in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 2 and 3, 1959. A second and scarcely less important purpose of this book is to serve as a monograph on exploding wires. Nowhere in any language is there a book, or for that matter a section of a book, on electrical wire explosions. The growing interest in and import ance of the phenomenon was indicated by the very gratifying re sponse to the Confe: rence invitations. We hope this book, reaching an even larger audience, will fill a gap in the literature as well as serve as a record of the Conference. A logical arrangement of the papers was extremely difficult to accomplish. On whatever basis they were classified, most papers could have been equally well placed in more than one category. This difficulty was solved by arranging them in three broad classes. If this book is to serve as a monograph, some gene: ral back ground in the exploding wire phenomenon (EWP) is needed. The Introduction was written to serve this purpose. It is, of course, impossible to thank all those without whose help the Conference and this book would not have been possible.
"To investigate the application of exploding wires as fuses for the proposed Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory 2-megajoule Project Sherwood capacitor bank, a 49.5-kilojoule capacitor discharge system was established at Sandia Corporation."--P. 3.
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