Explosions and Safety

Week 1: Chap 1: Introduction

Lec 1: Loud Bang and Disruption (1)
Lec 2: Blast Wave in an Explosion; Prediction from Dimensional Considerations (2)
Lec 3: Typical Examples of Explosions and Classification (3) 

Week 2:Chap 2: Theory of Blast Waves
Lec 4: Shock Hugoniot and Rayleigh Line (4)
Lec 5: Properties behind Constant Velocity Shock (5)
Lec. 6. Blast waves; Concentration of Mass at Front, Snow Plow Approximation (6) 

Week 3:Chap 3: Characteristics of Blast Waves
Lec 7: Decay of a Blast Wave, Sach’s Scaling (7)
Lec 8: Overpressure and Impulse in the near and Far Field (8)
Lec 9: Missiles, Fragments and Shrapnel, Craters (9) 

Week 4:Chap 4: Interaction of Blast with Objects and Structures
Lec 10: Reflection and Transmission of Blast Waves, Impedance (10)
Lec 11: Amplification of Reflected Blast waves, Spall, Damage to Organs, Mushroom Cloud (11)
Lec 12: Damage from Blast waves, Iso-damage Curve (12)

Week 5:Chap 5: Energy Release in an Explosion
Lec 13: Energy Release in a Chemical Reaction, Standard Heats of Formation (13)
Lec 14: Stoichiometry, Equivalence Ratio and Heat Release in Fuel-rich and Oxidizer-rich Compounds (14)
Lec 15: Energy release calculations, Higher and Lower Calorific Values, Internal Energy of Formation (15)

Week 6:Chap 6: Rate of Energy Release
Lec 16: Concentration, Activation Energy, Energy Release Profile (16)
Lec 17: Thermal Theory of Explosions (17)
Lec 18: Application of Thermal Theory and Inferences (18) 

Week 7:Chap 7: Modeling of Rate of Energy Release
Lec 19: Role of Chain carriers in an explosion (19)
Lec 20: Fire and Combustion (20)
Lec 21: Combustion and Explosions (21) 

Week 8: Lec 22: Case Histories of explosions involving Volatile Liquids (22)
Chap 8: Detonations
Lec. 23: Introduction to Detonations (23)
Lec 24: Structure of Detonation (24)

Week 9: Lec 25: Realizable States in a Detonation (25)
Lec 26: One Dimensional Model of a Detonation (26)
Lec 27: Case Histories of explosions Involving Detonation or Quasi-Detonation (27) 

Week 10:Chap 9: Different Types of Explosions
Lec 28: Explosions in Confined and Unconfined Geometries (28)
Lec 29: Dust Explosion I (29)
Lec 30: Dust Explosion II (30) 

Week 11:Lec 31: Physical Explosions (31)
Lec 32: Rupture of Cryogenic Storage Vessels and Pressure Vessels (32)
Chap 10: Condensed Phase Explosions
Lec 33 Condensed Phase Explosives based on Hydrocarbons (33) 

Week 12:Lec 34: Condensed Phase explosives and their Properties (34)
Lec 35: TNT Equivalence and Yield of an Explosion (35) Lec 36: Quantification of damages in an Explosion (39 and 40)