Sandia Blast Tube - Engineered Explosive Shockwaves in Slow Motion

The sandia blast tube facility provides experimental conditions to simulate extreme blast environments. The validation & qualification experimental sciences complex combines large scale environmental test facilities with advanced engineering & diagnostics to solve complex national security problems. Utilizing advanced engineering and modeling, precision shockwaves are bombarded onto test units. Watch in slow motion how a 100 lb. explosive charge is shaped into precise Mach 3 wavefront using high speed photography and synthetic Schlieren wavefront imaging. Advanced data fusion methods show how the wavefront progresses relative to measured pressure data and shockwave physics models.
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