Preburst Resistance and Temperature of Exploding Wires (open access)

Preburst Resistance and Temperature of Exploding Wires

It has been shown that the time of burst of exploding wires can be predicted from known thermodynamic and electrical properties of the wire materials under some conditions. The mathematical relationships are a set of integrals (transformation time integrals) similar in form to the empirical "action integrals" sometimes used in exploding wire work. This paper discusses the use of the transformation time integrals to calculate the resistance and temperature of a wire as a function of time up to the time of burst and to investigate the effects of environment of the wire on the temperature, resistance, and time of burst.
Date: February 24, 1964
Creator: Maninger, R. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library