Franklin Explosives Training Course

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Our standard 5- day Electroexplosive Device Training Course has been offered at our location for the past 30 years. We can also present short courses in Electroexplosive Safety, tailored to your particular needs, at your location. We have made such presentations for more than 45 governmental and industrial sponsors.

Titled Electroexplosives: Functioning, Reliability, and Hazards, this course will be offered July 25-29, 2011, by Franklin Applied Physics. Major topics to be covered include:

   definitions and history of explosives
   types of pyrotechnics, explosives and propellants
   types of EEDs including semiconductor bridges, laser initiated devices, exploding bridgewires, flying plate initiators, carbon bridges
   explosive trains and systems, fuzes, safe-arm devices
   sensitivity and functioning mechanisms
   EED statistics including Bruceton and Langlie tests
   output and applications
   safety versus reliability
   hazard sources — lightning, static electricity, electromagnetic energy (RF, EMP, light, etc.), heat, flame, impact, vibration, friction, shock blast, ionizing radiation, hostile environments, and human error
   precautions, safety practices and Standard Operating Procedures
   thermal modeling of EED firing characteristics
   accuracy, precision, and repeatability of EED thermal parameter evaluation
   use of EED thermal parameters in evaluation of lot-to-lot variation and quality control
   use of EED thermal parameters in aging evaluations
   accuracy and repeatability of Langlie and Bruceton evaluations
   evaluation of overall reliability of EED firing circuits using measured thermal parameters and Monte Carlo modeling procedures

Many of these subjects are in a state of maturing development; we present not only background, but also state-of-the-art developments.

The emphasis of this course is safety through understanding of the underlying physical phenomena. It is of particular benefit to EED handlers, their supervisors, safety engineers, instructors, designers, R&D personnel, quality control personnel, and inspectors.

Note: Our three-day Electroexplosive Device Training Course is no longer being offered on schedule, but we can provide it or the 5-day course described above at your location, or we can tailor a course to your company’s specific needs. Contact us for details.

Franklin Applied Physics ▪ 98 Highland Ave. ▪ PO Box 313 ▪ Oaks, PA 19456 ▪ 610.666.6645

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