Final Report: Research Study on the Surface Initiation of Explosives (Stanford Research Institute) along with Study of Surface Initiation of Explosives - Defense Documentation Center for Scientific and Technical Information (Cameron Station, Alexandria)

Menlo Park, CA and Alexandria, VA: Stanford Research Institute / Defense Documentation Center, Cameron Station. Very Good. 1965. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. B&W Illustrations & Photographs & Charts; Two parts - Part 1: Oversized paperback report (Final Report) with cardstock covers and a vinyl spine. Part 2: staplebound reproduced pages which consist of two pages per page on both recto and verso. This last part is an unclassified abstract from the Cameron Station Documentation Center dated 1963. Both parts are in Very Good to Near Very Good + condition and neither were issued with dust jackets. The Final Report has some ground-in dirt and spotting to the covers along with the penciled name J. Roth. The text pages are clean and bright. The abstract has edge wear, curling to the corners and some nicking and wear to the plain paper covers. It is staplebound from the top and there is an inked code on the top corner. The text pages are clean and bright. "To fill a continued military demand for con trolled explosive wave shaping, this study was undertaken to establish basic conditions for explosive systems capable of being initiated uniformly over their entire surface, and to demonstrate the functioning of the proposed system for simple geometries. This investigation is a continuation of that started under AFSWC TR-61-59. " I Only (from the introduction) ne copy listed in Worldcat: Defense Tech Information Center at Fort Bellvoir. .