Publications related to Explosive

Tunnel junction sensing of TATP explosive at the single-molecule level

Triacetone triperoxide (TATP) is a highly potent homemade explosive commonly used in terrorist attacks. Its detection poses a significant challenge due to its volatility, and the lack of portability of current sensing techniques. To address this issue, we ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2023

Reactions of amines with ozone and chlorine: Two novel oxidative methods to evaluate the N-DBP formation potential from dissolved organic nitrogen

Urs von Gunten, Karim-Alexandre Essaied, Lucy Victoria Brown

The composition of oxidant-reactive dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) is poorly characterized, although its ozonation is likely to form a great variety of disinfection by-products containing a nitrogen-oxygen bond (NDBPs). In this study, two chemical oxidat ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Explosive fragmentation of Prince Rupert's drops leads to well-defined fragment sizes

Jean-François Molinari

Anyone who has ever broken a dish or a glass knows that the resulting fragments range from roughly the size of the object all the way down to indiscernibly small pieces: typical fragment size distributions of broken brittle materials follow a power law, an ...

Nature Research2021

Impact of quantum-chemical metrics on the machine learning prediction of electron density

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Ksenia Briling, Alberto Fabrizio

Machine learning (ML) algorithms have undergone an explosive development impacting every aspect of computational chemistry. To obtain reliable predictions, one needs to maintain a proper balance between the black-box nature of ML frameworks and the physics ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2021

Fiber-Tip Polymer Microcantilever for Fast and Highly Sensitive Hydrogen Measurement

Giovanni Dietler, Sandor Kasas, Jiangtao Zhou, Leonardo Venturelli, Yiping Wang, Chaohui Li, Meng Zhu, Cong Xiong

Hydrogen as an antioxidant gas has been widely used in the medical and biological fields for preventing cancer or treating inflammation. However, controlling the hydrogen concentration is crucial for practical use due to its explosive property when its vol ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Predictive Models for Thermal Stability and Explosive Properties of Chemicals from Molecular Structure

Nadia Baati

Industrial chemical processes may involve thermal risks as most of the reactions performed are exothermic, the chemicals used are often thermally unstable, and the operating conditions are set to induce high conversion and throughput. Besides the reactive ...

EPFL2016

Mechanical and microstructural characteristics of Ti6Al4V/AA2519 and Ti6Al4V/AA1050/AA2519 laminates manufactured by explosive welding

Marco Cantoni

The aim of the work was to produce laminated structures consisting of Ti-6Al-4V alloy and AA2519 plates and to investigate their microstructure and mechanical properties with anemphasis on the role of an additional AA1050 interlayer. Explosive welding was ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2016

High Power Electromagnetics Applied to Humanitarian Demining in Colombia

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Nicolas Mora Parra

This paper summarizes the main findings of a long-term research to explore the use of high power electromagnetics in humanitarian demining. A neutralization method based on remote detonation of electrically-activated improvised explosive devices (IED) was ...

Ieee2016

Plasma turbulence, suprathermal ion dynamics and code validation on the basic plasma physics device TORPEX

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Fabio Avino, Francesca Maria Poli, Gennady Plyushchev, Kyle Gustafson, Alexandre Dominique Bovet, Davoud Iraji

The TORPEX basic plasma physics device at the Center for Plasma Physics Research (CRPP) in Lausanne, Switzerland is described. In TORPEX, simple magnetized toroidal configurations, a paradigm for the tokamak scrape-off layer (SOL), as well as more complex ...

Cambridge University Press2015

Characterization, Modeling, and Statistical Analysis of the Electromagnetic Response of Inert Improvised Explosive Devices

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri

The experimental characterization of the electromagnetic (EM) response of a set of inert improvised explosive devices (IEDs) is presented in this paper. The characterization is based on measurements of gain and input impedance of the firing circuits of ine ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

Quantitative Structure-Property Relationships for Thermal Stability and Explosive Properties of Chemicals

Thierry Meyer, Francis Stoessel, Annik Nanchen, Nadia Baati

Handling and storing chemicals in the industrial world require a conscientious hazards assessment and the implementation of appropriate measures to ensure safety for the workers, the company, the environment and the society. Reliable evaluations and predic ...

2013

Investigation of fast ion transport in TORPEX

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Kyle Gustafson, Alexandre Dominique Bovet

Basic aspects of fast ion transport in ideal interchange-mode unstable plasmas are investigated in the simple toroidal plasma device TORPEX. Fast ions are generated by a miniaturized lithium 6+ ion source with energies up to 1 keV, and are detected using a ...

Int Atomic Energy Agency2012

Rock damage control in bedrock blasting excavation for a nuclear power plant

Jian Zhao

Drill and blast is a major method for bed rock excavation in nuclear power plant engineering. Under blasting excavation, blast-induced vibration propagates in rock mass and induces damage to surrounding rock. Studying the characteristics of wave propagatio ...

Elsevier2011

Affective content analysis of music video clip

Touradj Ebrahimi, Ashkan Yazdani, Krista Kappeler

Nowadays, the amount of multimedia contents is explosively increasing and it is often a challenging problem to find a con- tent that will be appealing or matches users’ current mood or affective state. In order to achieve this goal, an efficient indexing t ...

ACM2011

A micro gas preconcentrator with improved performance for pollution monitoring and explosives detection

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, El Hadji Malick Camara

This paper presents the optimization of a micro gas preconcentrator based on a micro-channel in porous and non-porous silicon filled with an adequate adsorbent. This micro gas preconcentrator is both applicable in the fields of atmospheric pollution monito ...

Elsevier2011

Analysis of the brittle fragmentation of an expanding ring

Jean-François Molinari

The current research extends our previous work on brittle fragmentation of a one-dimensional bar [F. Zhou, J.-F. Molinari, K.T. Ramesh, A cohesive-model based fragmentation analysis: effects of strain rate and initial defects distribution, International Jo ...

2006