explosives

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Thin explosive films provide snapshot of how detonations start

March 4, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Using thin films — no more than a few pieces of notebook paper thick — of a common explosive chemical, researchers from Sandia National Laboratories studied how small-scale explosions start and grow. Sandia is the only lab in the U.S. that can make such detonatable thin films....

Categories: Computing, Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: basic explosive science, computer modeling and simulation, explosives, explosives research, thin films

Black and white image of an explosive shockwave and a video play button.

Terrorist, timed scenarios challenge bomb squads at Sandia’s Robot Rodeo

May 13, 2019, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Bomb squad teams from New Mexico and beyond are converging at Sandia National Laboratories for a five-day Robot Rodeo and Capability Exercise where emergency preparedness skills will be put to the test.Twelve challenges for 10 military and civilian team…

Categories: Media advisories, Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: bomb squads, explosives, Robot Rodeo, robotics, robots, Sandia, Sandia Labs, Sandia National Labs, simulated, training

From Albuquerque to Afghanistan and back again

November 30, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Located between vastly dry desert terrain to one side and beautifully lush terrain — known as the “Green Zone” — to the other, a 20-year-old U.S. Marine found himself in the town of Sangin, one of the deadliest places in Afghanistan. Sangin was unlike any other region in...

Categories: Military / Defense

Topics: disabled veterans, explosives, marine corps, veteran

Fragment tracking: insights into what happens in explosions

October 11, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A bang and a swirl of dust from detonating 9 pounds of plastic explosive in the desert signaled the beginning of tests that — thanks to advances in high-speed cameras, imaging techniques and computer modeling — will help Sandia National Laboratories…

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: diagnostics, explosives, fragment tracking

Sandia National Laboratories researchers are doing a series of tests that are studying fragmenting explosives in ways that haven’t been possible in the past. The project observes explosively driven fragments with flash X-ray and high-speed cameras. (Photo courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories)

Sandia explosives legend Paul Cooper hangs up his teaching hat

August 27, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Paul Cooper, one of the world’s foremost explosives experts, retired from Sandia National Laboratories more than a decade ago but continued his labor of love, teaching a new generation of engineers everything they needed to know about blowing things up. Cooper taught explosives safety and technology to...

Categories: Homeland security, Materials Science, Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: branch davidians, education, engineers, expert, explosives, materials science, national laboratories, oklahoma city, Sandia, training, twa 800, uss iowa