There will be no course held in July of 2024. Our next course will be held in January 2025, with dates to be determined.

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 Electro Explosive Devices: Functioning, Reliability, and Hazards, the next course will be held in person at a hotel to be determined near our lab (located in Oaks, Pennsylvania).

Major topics 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