CAPTURE OF PARTICLES DISPERSED BY DETONATION USING AN AQUEOUS FOAM CONFINEMENT

Abstract

Over the past decades, the needs to mitigate detonation effects have significantly increased. To deal with these issues, the French Nuclear Energy Agency has studied aqueous foam confinement. This solution has two advantages. Firstly, the presence of these two-phases medium leads to drastically attenuate the blast wave generated by the detonation of an explosive device. Secondly, the presence of the liquid phase slows down and ultimately captures the micrometric and potentially harmful particles dispersed by the explosion. This specific topic will be discussed in this paper.