Motion of a plate thrown by a glancing detonation wave

A method is described for computing the motion of a thrown plate in terms of its specified maximum turning angle and a known polytropic index for the explosion products for use in the explosion working of materials. This method makes it possible to determine the throwing profile, with fair accuracy, over a relatively wide range of the ratio of the masses of the explosive and plate. Translated fromFizika Goreniya i Vzryva, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 122–126, January–February 1999.