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.
