Introduction to Explosive Reactive Armour

This monograph describes the basic functioning of Explosive Reactive Armour (ERA) and the fundamentals of explosion dynamics and shock wave which are relevant and necessary to understand the basic mechanism of ERA. The main aim of this monograph is to make available all the important topics of explosion dynamics at one place to save time and effort for new scientists entering armament research and also for those who are already working in this field.

This monograph also aims at creating a deep understanding of explosion dynamics among scientists in armament research. To achieve this aim, all relevant fundamentals of explosion dynamics are given with detailed descriptions. Special attention is given to provide detailed derivations of theoretical relations so that the reader gets a clear understanding of the derivations and the assumptions involved in them. All relations have been derived by starting from fundamental laws such as conservation of mass, momentum and energy, and without omitting steps in these derivations.