Kirk Yeager & Dennis Hunter
New Mexico Tech / Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center

.5 IH CM point

An overview of the regulations applied to the routine handling of energetic materials will be given. Following this, an analysis of the methodologies used to determine TNT equivalencies will be presented. Rudimentary calculations used to determine safe distances for protection against fragmentation will be covered. Finally, an overview of some of the codes available to predict explosive yields, and therefore safety measures needed when dealing with them, will be presented.