Re: Hand grenade's effect on nearby objects

From: TimR (timothy42b_at_aol.com)
Date: 06/04/04 

Date: 3 Jun 2004 23:31:21 -0700

Uncle Al <UncleAl0@hate.spam.net> wrote in message news:<40BFD917.DDBA9B56@hate.spam.net>...
> Anders Egleus wrote:
> >
> > Hi, I'm new here, and I'm checking to see if someone could help me
> > with a problem. I've searched google a lot, but I'm still pretty much
> > clueless.
> >
> > I'm assisting a colleauge (who's a conceptually oriented artist) with
> > an installation. My task is to build and animate a simulation of a
> > hand grenade exploding in her kitchen in 3d.
> >
> > What I need to know is, given some attributes of the hand grenade, how
> > does the shock wave affect the motion of an object?
> [snip]
>
> There is no shock wave. Fragmentation hand grenades are strictly low
> explosive. The idea is to shove shrapnel not pulverize the casing.
> You don't want the kill zone to exceed the throw distance - bad for
> morale.
>
> Why don't you ask the Armed Forces? One suspects they have high speed
> photography of energetic disassembly events for use in improved
> design.

Check out a safety department. They have a lot of training videos and
some involve videos of explosions. I've seen a few lab safety videos
that show impressive blasts from rather small bottles of chemicals
handled incorrectly (by robots, of course.)

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