An approach to determining the TNT equivalent of high explosives
Radun Jeremiæ
Zoran Bajiæ
Effective explosive weight (EEW) is one of the basic parameters for estimating the pyrotechnic safety in manufacturing, storing and manipulation processes with explosive ordnance. For its resolving the values of TNT equivalents for explosives which are in the explosive ordnance must be known. Since there are many approaches to this problem, a unique TNT equivalent based on detonation parameters obtained from thermo-chemical calculations are proposed in this paper. Methods are confirmed comparing the obtained results with the results available in references and also experimentally.
Key words: explosives, pyrotechnic safety, effective explosive weight (EEW), TNT equivalent (TNT), safety distances.