• Explosives and Blasting
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2014

TNT was blasted on the surface of steel plates and concrete block to study the effect of separation distance between object and charge. The equation of US Army Corps of Engineers turned out to be rather conservative. Effect of separation distance is larger for steel plate than concrete block. Steel plate cannot be cut by standard or more charge in the case of 2 cm separation while the concrete block can be crushed with the same distance.