Influence of Longitudinal Gaps on the Detonation Front

Abstract Precursor air shocks with velocities that are 50 % higher than the velocity of detonation occur not only in cylindrical holes, but also in flat slits. By attaching to the test charge a sufficiently long plexiglass body with the same hole or slit profiles it is possible to observe the end face of the test charge and, thus, to record the changes in the detonation profile caused by slits, in particular by such that are oblique to the direction of detonation. One result is, that there is no through‐detonation across thin slits that are at a flat angle to the detonation wave.