The use of explosion in fabrication of new materials

Abstract

The energy of high explosives have been widely used for some time in improving characteristics of the existing materials as well as for creating new materials having good prospects for different technological applications. The two last decades witnessed especially remarkable results in this field. In this paper we shall give a concise review of explosive metal hardening and welding processes, explosive compaction of metalxnon-metal materials as well as of the equipment used in industrial applications of these and some other processes of explosive treatment of materials.