INTRODUCTION TO THE TECHNOLOGY OF EXPLOSIVES
The course provides a thorough grounding in the various technologies used in the design and application of explosives and explosive systems.

The course is designed with two basic objectives in mind: (1) to provide the inexperienced worker in the field with sufficient background to understand problems that may arise and to facilitate interaction with specialists in the field; (2) to provide an awareness of the crucial importance of safety in dealing with explosives to be obtained through a combination of technical knowledge and an appreciation of the various laws, statutes, codes and common practices in this field.

The major topics covered are:
The Chemistry of Explosives
The Mechanics of Burning
Sound, Shock and Detonation
Initiation and Initiators
Scaling in Design and Analysis
Off-the-Shelf Explosive Devices
Classification, Transportation & Storage of Explosives
Explosive Facilities and Explosive Operations


LECTURER: PAUL W. COOPER


TEXT:
Workbook
P. W. Cooper & S. R. Kurowski, INTRODUCTION TO THE TECHNOLOGY OF EXPLOSIVES, Wiley, NY, 1997
Course Fee: $2495.
Please register 30 days before the start of the course




HOW TO INITIATE EXPLOSIVES: Initiation and Initiators
The course takes an engineering approach to the subject matter. Practicality and application of the material are stressed over theory. Problem solving is emphasized. The course is designed to help you understand, analyze and solve a broad range of problems involving initiation of burning and detonation, and transfer of detonation across interfaces.
Major topics covered in the course are:
Theories of Initiation
Initiation of Deflagration
Initiation of Detonation
Deflagration-to-Detonation Transition

Nonelectric Initiators
Flame or Spark Initiators
Friction-Initiated Devices
Stab Initiators
Percussion Initiators
Energy-Power Relationship

Hot-Wire Initiators
Electric Matches
Electric Blasting Caps
Short Lead and Connectorized Initiators
Energy-Power Relationship
Firing at Minimum Energy
Safety Considerations in Design
Quality Control Testing

Exploding Bridgewire Detonators
Construction of EBWs
Explosion of the Bridgewire
Detonation of Initial Pressing
Effects of Cables
Function Time
Series and Parallel Firing Considerations
Safety Considerations

FEE: $2195
TEXT: Cooper, P, W., EXPLOSIVES ENGINEERING, Wiley, NY, 1997


Available as an onsite course

SHOCK AND DETONATION: AN ENGINEERING APPROACH
The course is designed to help you understand, analyze and solve a broad range of problems involving shock waves and energetic materials. By way of background, you will need to have a facility with algebra and some familiarity with the fundamental principles of thermodynamics and chemistry that are typically presented in a first course at an undergraduate level.

Daily Schedule:
DAY 1 Morning
Qualitative description of pressure waves
Elastic waves; shock waves
Particle and wave velocities
Attenuation of waves
Bead model

Afternoon
Derivation of shock jump conditions

DAY 2 Morning
Interaction of shock waves

Afternoon
Rarefaction waves
Interactions of rarefaction waves

DAY 3 Morning
Detonation waves
ZND or "ideal" model
Estimating the C-J state
Estimating the detonation product Hugoniot

Afternoon
Interaction of detonation waves
Interactions with other materials

Real effects in detonations
Reaction zone
Effects of diameter, density

LECTURER: Paul W. Cooper
TEXTS: P. W. Cooper, EXPLOSIVES ENGINEERING, Wiley, NY, 1997; J. A. Zukas and W. P. Walters (eds.), EXPLOSIVE EFFECTS AND APPLICATIONS, Springer-Verlag, NY, 1998
FEE: $2195


SCALING THE EFFECTS OF EXPLOSIONS

1. Description: This 3 day short course provides participants with a thorough
grounding in the engineering application of explosives.

Participants gain access to an outstanding scientist who is an active contributor to the field and author of several books on explosive technology. They get to spend a week with one of the top people in the field. They can listen, ask questions, and consult with him on problems at work. This is an unparalleled opportunity. The only way to fail to benefit from this course is to sit in a corner all week long and never say anything!

Participants will be exposed to the literature in your field and take home an extensive set of notes as well as the texts:
Introduction to the Technology of Explosives by Paul W. Cooper and Stanley R.Kurowski, VCH Publishers, NY, 1996
Fundamentals of Shaped Charges by W. P. Walters and J. A. Zukas, CMCPress, Baltimore,
1998
Explosive Effects and Applications, J. A. Zukas and W. P. Walters (Eds.), Springer-Verlag,
NY , 1998

After this week, they will have a much better understanding of explosive technology and know where to look up information (and whom to call) on future problems.

Participants will get hands-on experience solving problems in the accompanying workbook. They will learn first-hand the capabilities and limitations of analytical methods for modeling the behavior of energetic materials! The majority of problems in engineering applications can be solved with first-order "back-of-the-envelope" type calculations.
Participants will obtain the basic calculational skills needed to solve simple, first-order engineering design problems.

The major topics covered in the course are:

Theories of Scaling:
Scaling by Geometric Similarity
Scaling by Dimensional Analysis
Work Functions or Available Energy

Acceleration, Formation & Flight of Fragments:
The Gurney Model
Fragmentation of Cylinders
Flight of Fragments

Blast Effects:
Scaling Air Shock
Scaling Shocks in Water
Physiological Response to Air Blast

Scaling Craters:
Crater Formation Mechanisms
Surface Bursts
Above-Surface Bursts
Buried Bursts

Jetting, Shaped Charges and Explosive Welding
Shaped Charges
Explosive Welding


2. Prerequisites

A facility with algebra and some familiarity with the fundamental principles of thermodynamics and chemistry that are typically presented in a first course at an undergraduate level is helpful.

3. Course Information

a. Cost of the course: The cost of the course is $2195 (U.S.), payable in advance by credit card, check, purchase order or cash.

b. Length of course: The course duration is two and one-half days.

c. Number of Students: In order to allow participants to interact with the instructor and other students, the class size is limited to 30 registrants.

d. Learning Objectives: To introduce those new to explosives to a broad overview of the engineering disciplines where explosives are extensively used and provide references for further study.

e. Discounts: Discounts are available for 3 or more registrants from the same organization who register at the same time and pay the appropriate fee.

f. Cancellation Policy: Cancellations may be made up to 30 calendar days before the start of the course. After that registrants will be liable for the full amount.

g. Point of Contact: For questions about the technical contact of the course, please contact the course lecturer, Paul W. Cooper, at (505) 845-7210. For administrative and contractual matters, contact Dr. J. A. Zukas at CMA at (410) 532-3260.

4. Instruction

a. Name of Instructor: Paul W. Cooper

b. Credentials and Experience: PAUL COOPER is a consultant in the field of explosives engineering. He also teaches extensively on the subject in the form of short courses as well as at university graduate courses. Mr. Cooper is recently retired from 32 years at Sandia National Laboratories where he held the position of Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the Department of Explosives Applications. Prior to that, he worked at the Armour Research Foundation in Chicago and at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. He was an Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering on the graduate faculty at the New Mexico State University (NMSU).

Paul Cooper has over 32 years' experience in basic research in explosives phenomena and in the design, development and testing of explosives and explosive devices and components for both conventional and nuclear weapons systems. His work has also included the use of explosives for seismic exploration for minerals and natural energy resources; explosive and propellant enhanced recovery techniques for oil and gas; and significant contributions in the areas of safeguards and security. His unique work utilizing scale models has significantly reduced costs and development time on a number of critical programs.

Mr. Cooper is recognized internationally as an expert in the explosives field. Examples of situations where his expertise was deemed essential include the following:

Mr. Cooper was a lead investigator of the Sandia National Laboratories Committee to review and reinvestigate the 1989 USS IOWA Gun Turret Explosion for the US Senate Armed Services Committee. He demonstrated through both theoretical models and full-scale experiments that the explosion was caused by an accidental over-ram of the gun.

He testified before the U. S. Senate Armed Services Committee on the subject of the explosion aboard the battleship USS IOWA.

Mr. Cooper was a special consultant to the United Nations and member of the UNSCOM/IAEA inspection team in Iraq concerned with uncovering that country's development of nuclear weapons.

He was an appointed member of the Treasury Department's Administrative Review of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms' actions at the Branch Davidian Compound at Waco, Texas.

He has served continuously since 1982 as a member of the Advisory Committee for the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators, and has received the Distinguished Service Award from that organization

Mr. Cooper has published extensively in his field. In addition to numerous papers and reports, he has authored two engineering tutorial/reference textbooks, Introduction to the Technology of Explosives (co-authored with S. R. Kurowski) and Explosives Engineering, both published by John Wiley & Sons Publishers in 1996. Mr. Cooper has also authored an invited chapter on Detonation Physics for the reference text, Explosive Effects and Applications , edited by Jonas A. Zukas and William P. Walters, published in 1998 by Springer-Verlag. He is also the former American editor of the International Journal of Propellants, Explosives and Pyrotechnics.

Mr. Cooper has prepared and presented numerous technical, engineering, and safety courses and has acted as a general consultant in explosives technology, safety and security matters for various government departments and agencies. Much of his interagency activity involved investigation of accidents involving explosives and explosions. Consulting clients, present and former, include:

Sandia National Laboratories
U.S. Dept. of Energy/Idaho Operations Office
FBI Laboratory Division
U.S. DoD/Defense Science Board
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station
Computational Mechanics Associates
Stone and Webster Engineering
ETA Consultants, Inc
SBR Technologies, Inc.
Ensign-Bickford Company, Inc.
Several law firms (accident investigation)

Mr. Cooper regularly teaches a series of short courses sponsored by Computational Mechanics Associates. These include:

Introduction to Explosives
Detonation: An Engineering Approach
Explosive Initiation and Initiators
Explosive Effects and Applications
The Chemistry of Explosives


These courses are always well received whenever given. Some of the enthusiastic responses from attendees, mostly practicing engineers in industry and government laboratories, many with advanced degrees, include:

“Recalling some of the professors/lecturers I've had in the past, Paul Cooper outdoes most! Information (written material and lecture) was clearly presented and progressed in a logical sequence. This is truly a compliment from someone with a limited engineering science background and 20+ years passage since dealing with some of the mechanics. Excellent course.”

“It's a good course for practical engineers. Material was presented in a good fashion. Even though there is a lot of material that was covered in this course, it was easy to follow and understand. Also the instructor was very personable and took a lot of questions.”

“The instructor's knowledge, frankness and candor were refreshing.”

This course has been attended by a wide range of students from government ( e. g. , FBI,
ATF, NSWC Indian Head, NSWC Crane, NAWC, Army Research Laboratory, US Air Force
Research Laboratory [Eglin AFB], Sandia, Los Alamos and Livermore National Laboratories),
non-government (e.g., Ensign-Bickford, Pantex, Primex Corp, OEA Aerospace, SAIC, Sverdrup
Technology, Baker Atlas, Mason & Hanger, Delphi Interior Systems) and overseas (Canada,
United Kingdom, Scotland, Norway).

5. Registration: To register, call (410-532-3260) or fax (410-532-3260) Computational
Mechanics Associates. Registrations may also be made through our website,
www.compmechanics.com. All registrations will be acknowledged. Do not travel without a
registration confirmation!

Unless other arrangements are made, payment is due either at the time of registration or no later than 30 calendar days before the start of the course. We accept VISA
and MASTERCARD credit cards, corporate checks and purchase orders, as well as U.S.Government training forms.


INSENSITIVE MUNITIONS
Initiation of Energetic Materials and
the Road to Insensitive Munitions


1. Description: This short course is designed to review the physics and chemistry of deliberate and accidental initiation of energetic materials, the relevance of their thermo-mechanical
properties on these processes and how these factors influence the design and development of reduced vulnerability energetic materials and insensitive munitions. Mechanical and chemical kinetic properties of energetic materials each have important influences on the response of energetic materials to unplanned stimuli. Thermal and shock initiation theories are only a part of
the requirements for understanding unplanned initiation. A basic introduction to both forms of initiation will be given. This will be used to show how initiation processes in energetic materials can be related to current hazard test procedures and shortcomings of the procedures will be
examined. The role of thermo-mechanical properties in controlling initiation will be examined via an assessment of the importance of Dynamic Fracture Mechanics on energetic materials response to thermo-mechanical stimuli. Principles governing the design of reduced vulnerability energetic
materials and their responses to these stimuli will be developed. Some design principles of reduced vulnerability energetic materials will be examined.

Participants gain access to an outstanding scientists who is an active contributor to the field. Dr. Lee has just recently completed a four-year tour as Project Manager of the NATO Insensitive Munitions Information Center (NIMIC) in Brussells. They get to spend a week with a
top person in the field. They can listen, ask questions, and consult on problems at work. This is an unparalleled opportunity. The only way to fail to benefit from this course is to sit in a corner all week long and never say anything!

2. Prerequisites

This course is intended as a beginning course for professionals who are interested in a broad overview of initiation and insensitivity. A facility with algebra and some familiarity with the fundamental principles of thermodynamics and organic chemistry that are typically presented in a
first course at an undergraduate level is helpful.

3. Course Information

a. Cost of the course: The cost of the course is $2195 (U.S.), payable in advance by credit card,check, purchase order or cash.

b. Length of course: The course duration is three and one-half days, with six hours of instruction per full day.

c. Daily Schedule: The daily schedule for this course is:

Day 1: AM Thermal initiation
PM Shock initiation; real hazard situations

Day 1 is devoted to a very broad scoped review of thermal explosion theory and shock initiation theory. Each has important lessons to teach about the processes involved in the initiation
of energetic materials either deliberately, or accidentally. However, it will also be shown that these idealised situations merely provide guidelines in the search for understanding of the processes of initiation in real accidental initiations of energetics or weapons systems.


Day 2: AM Hazard testing of energetic materials – some general principles on risk and consequences of accidents
PM Materials properties of energetic materials and their effects on initiation characteristics and life of weapons systems

During Day 2 a review will be made of the history and background to hazard assessment testing of energetic materials. It will be shown what the results of testing can tell us and what they cannot tell us. An examination will be made of the risk associated with the handling of energetic
materials and the discussion will build upon this to discuss the consequences of accidents for all the stakeholders involved. The influence of the physical and thermo-mechanical properties of energetic materials on accidental initiation will be introduced.


Day 3: AM Insensitive Munitions (IM) testing requirements
PM Some insensitive munitions design principles

Day 3 will be devoted to insensitive munitions. The testing requirements will be discussed in the morning and during the afternoon. Generic IM design principles will be discussed in detail.Reduced vulnerability munitions constitute the greatest step forward in reduction in weapon vulnerability and hazard, since the widespread use of gunpowder ceased in the mid to late 19th
Century. The evolution of the hazard testing regimes will be discussed to take account of the special characteristics of energetic materials of reduced vulnerability. These characteristics have influenced munition design and the gradual awareness of the system dependence of vulnerability
on design will be elaborated.

Day 4: AM Future trends, problem areas, what IM buy for you in ownership terms.

During the morning of Day 4 an open discussion introduced by Dr Lee will seek to discuss where problems are expected to lie in the movement towards reduced vulnerability weapons in the
future. In particular the drivers for further work in the IM field will be elaborated and what reduction in vulnerability of systems buys one in terms of logistics and operational advantages.

d. Discounts: Discounts are available for 3 or more registrants from the same organization who register at the same time and pay the appropriate fee.

e. Cancellation Policy: Cancellations may be made up to 30 calendar days before the start of the course. After that registrants will be liable for the full amount.

g. Point of Contact: For questions about the technical contact of the course, please contact the course coordinator, Dr. Peter Lee, at 44-1892-861312. For administrative and contractual matters, contact Dr. J.A. Zukas at CMA at (410) 532-3260.

4. Instruction

a. Instructor:
Dr. Peter Lee, Managing Director, Peter Lee Consulting Company, 8 Upton Quarry, Langton Green, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN3 0HA, UNITED KINGDOM

b. Credentials and Experience:
Dr Lee gained a First Class Honours Degree in Chemistry at the University of Bristol in England, in 1960 and was awarded a PhD at the same university in 1963 for work on inorganic homogeneous kinetics. He has worked on the science of explosions and explosives since 1963,when he started a 3 year Post Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Leeds. While there he
wrote a definitive monograph on Thermal Explosion Theory with Professor P Gray.

In 1966 Dr Lee studied premature initiation of shell in artillery guns and other aspects of explosives and weapons safety and suitability for service for the the Australian Department of Supply, part of the Australian Department of Defence. He returned to the UK in 1970 to work in
the Explosives Branch of the Ministry of Defence, Royal Armaments Research and Development Establishment (RARDE) at Fort Halstead. Between 1970 and 1975 he carried out further work on premature initiation of shell in gun barrels. It was largely due to the work of his group that the understanding of the processes matured. This has been manifest in the virtual absence of in-bore
events since the mid-late 1970s. He also gradually became immersed in the UK explosives hazard assessment activity and it was as a result of the work of his group that the importance of deflagrative events in weapons was recognised. Not all explosions are detonations.

In 1975 he undertook a new role on promotion as the officer responsible for the design and development of the high explosive filling techniques for all UK non-nuclear explosive filled weapons. This included trouble-shooting problems in UK government munitions filling factories.

He became superintendent (head) of the explosives branch at RARDE in 1980, when his responsibilities increased to include design and development of detonators and initiators for all non-nuclear weapons, Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), explosives hazard and filling activities.

Dr. Lee moved again in 1983 to become the superintendent of the warheads division of the RARDE. This post entailed responsibility for all research and development of warhead technologies and new warhead types. During his period in office the first tandem shaped charge warhead was flown on a test track, the JP 233 anti-runway weapon development was completed
and the Spearfish torpedo warhead work began.

He moved to the Royal Ordnance Factories in late 1984, before they were privatised and in 1985 became Director of Research and Development of the Ammunition Division of Royal Ordnance plc, based at Chorley in Lancashire. The work entailed identification of those areas of
new work that the newly privatised company might carry out itself and to ensure that it had the resources to do this. Inevitably, much of the work was a fight against shrinking budgets and to ensure that safety was properly recognised and funded. However, notable achievements during this period were the erection of a £1.3M enclosed firing facility capable of withstanding the
detonation of 10kg of high explosive without noise, or product pollution.

Royal Ordnance was bought by BAe, now BAE SYSTEMS, in 1987 and Dr Lee was
made Head of Research in the new company, still called Royal Ordnance, but a division of BAe. Interest shifted somewhat away from energetic materials, which were regarded by the company as relatively low technology, and considerable effort was put into non-energetic materials forms of weaponry and including rail guns. The highlight of the period was involvement in the forensic
work associated with the bombing of PanAm Flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988. Dr Lee’s work was fundamental to the understanding of how the damage pattern related to the quantity of explosive in the bomb.

The continual restriction of funds for research in energetic materials and new weapons areas finally forced Dr Lee to take early retirement from Royal Ordnance/BAe in early 1992 and establish his own consulting company which is still flourishing. The company specialises in advising government organisations and companies on matters related to safety of weapons and
explosives, weapons design and development, storage, transportation and life assessment. He has had contracts with governments and companies in Australia, New Zealand, the US, UK and NATO, in Brussels. Highlights have been assessment of the possible sites for a new airport in Sydney, Australia, advice to the Ministry of the Environment in New Zealand concerning the form
of new legislation concerning the classification and licensing of hazardous materials, work with the Federal Aviation Authority in the US and the Civil Aviation Administration in the UK on blast-resistant aircraft baggage containers, a European-wide Euclid project on environmental clean-up of explosives contaminated areas, protection of a satellite assembly building at BAe from
explosion of the pressurised propellant containers within it, work on new armour for armoured vehicles for the UK MOD and other tasks.


In 1998 Dr Lee began a four-year tour with the NATO Insensitive Munitions Information Center (NIMIC) in Brusels as the Project Manager. This work entailed the management of a team of technical specialists in weapons research and development, storage and transportation,
supported by a group of IT professionals and office staff. Their role is to act as an information resource for the NIMIC nations on Insensitive Munitions (IM). Dr Lee took over a group servicing 9 nations, Australia, Canada, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, the UK and the US and attracted Denmark, Finland and Sweden during his tenure, with Germany likely to
join in 2004. Largely as a result of the work of the NIMIC, the cost-effectiveness of IM weapons systems has been proven beyond doubt and nations within the NIMIC are procuring exclusively low vulnerability weapons systems in preference to those known to be subject to mass-detonation risk. This is a considerable reassurance for those using the weapons and those living close to
facilities processing them.

Dr Lee returned to the UK in late 2002 and resumed management of his consulting
company.


INTRODUCTION TO EXTERIOR BALLISTICS
1. Description: This short course covers the basic principles of exterior ballistics. It is meant to serve as an introduction to the field. Some real world problems will be solved as examples during the class. The topics covered consist of:

• Initial concepts and nomenclature
• Dynamics review
• Vacuum trajectories
• Simple air trajectories with and without wind effects
• Generalized point mass trajectories
• 6 Degree-of-freedom trajectories
• Modified point mass trajectories
• Linearized pitching and yawing motions
• Flight stability
• Discussion of nonlinear behavior

Attendees will be exposed to the literature in the field and take home an extensive set of notes as well as the newly-published text

D. Carlucci and S Jacobson, Ballistics: The Theory and Design of Ammunition and Guns, Taylor and Francis, NY, 2007

2. Prerequisites: Individuals should hold at least a baccalaureate degree in engineering or the equivalent to obtain maximum benefit from the course.

3. Course Information

a. Cost: The cost of the course is $2495.00 (U.S.), payable in advance by credit card, check, purchase order or cash.

b. Length of course: The course is 3 ½ days duration with six hours of instruction per day.

c. Number of students: In order to allow participants to interact with the instructor and with each other, the class size is limited to the first 20 registrants.

d. Learning objectives: To introduce those new to the subject matter to a broad overview of exterior ballistics and provide reference materials for further study.

e. Cancellation policy: Cancellation may be made up to 30 calendar days before the start of the course. After that, registrants will be liable for the full amount of the course. Substitutions may be made at any time up to the start of the course.

f. Point of contact: For questions about the technical content of the course, please contact the course coordinator and lecturer, Dr. Donald Carlucci, at (973) 724-2486
. For administrative and contractual matters contact Computational Mechanics Associates at (410) 532-3260.

4. Instruction
The instructor for this course is Donald E. Carlucci, P. E., Ph.D. Dr. Carlucci has been a Systems Engineer in the Precision Munitions, Mines and Demolitions Division at the U.S. Army Armament, Research, Development and Engineering Center, Picatinny Arsenal since May, 1989. He is currently Acting Chief for the Precision Armaments team responsible for the modeling and evaluation of cannon launched guided munitions programs at Picatinny and Chief Scientist for the XM982 Excalibur guided projectile. Dr. Carlucci has formerly held the position of Development Program Officer (Chief Engineer) for Sense and Destroy Armor (SADARM). Prior to employment at Picatinny, Dr. Carlucci was a design engineer for Titanium Industries located in Fairfield, N.J. Dr. Carlucci held positions as Chief Engineer, Quality Assurance Manager and Purchasing Manager for Hoyt Corporation located in Englewood, New Jersey. Dr. Carlucci is a licensed Professional Engineer in the States of New Jersey and New York and holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (2002) and Master of Engineering (Mechanical) (1995) degree from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N.J. In 1987, Dr. Carlucci received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J. Dr. Carlucci is an Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology teaching graduate classes on Interior, Exterior and Terminal Ballistics as well as undergraduate classes on engineering design.


Please register 30 days before the start of the course.

INTRODUCTION TO TERMINAL BALLISTICS

1. Description: This 4 ½ day short course covers the basic principles of terminal ballistics. It is meant to serve as an introduction to the field. Some real world problems will be solved by the students as exercises during the class. The topics covered consist of:

1. Initial concepts and nomenclature
2. Unsteady wave motion
3. Stress waves in solids
4. Review of Rankine-Hugoniot relations
5. Low velocity impact
6. Fracture with stress waves
7. Penetration and perforation of solids
8. Introduction to shaped charges
9. Elementary wound ballistics

Attendees will be exposed to the literature in the field and take home an extensive set of notes as well as (depending on availability) the texts:

• P. W. Cooper, Explosives Engineering, Wiley-VCH, NY, 1996
• W. P. Walters & J. A. Zukas, Fundamentals of Shaped Charges, Wiley, NY, 1989; reprinted 1998 by CMCPress, Baltimore, MD
• J. A. Zukas et al, Impact Dynamics, Wiley, NY, 1982; reprinted 1992 by Krieger Publishing, Malabar, FL
• J. S. Rinehart, Stress Transients in Solids, HyperDynamics, Santa Fe, NM, 1975

2. Prerequisites The class is intended for individuals new to the ordnance field or those interested in the basic aspects of projectile-target interaction. Individuals should hold at least a baccalaureate degree in engineering or the equivalent to obtain maximum benefit from the course.

3. Course Information

a. Cost: The cost of the course is $2495.00 (U.S.), payable in advance by credit card, check, purchase order or cash.

b. Length of course: The course is 4 ½ days duration with six hours of instruction per day. The half day at the end of the course is devoted to a summation of the material covered, response to student questions and discussion of student problems.


c. Number of students: In order to allow participants to interact with the instructor and with each other, the class size is limited to the first 30 registrants.

d. Learning objectives: To introduce those new to the subject matter to a broad overview of terminal ballistics and provide reference materials for further study.

e. Discounts: Discounts are available for 3 or more registrants from the same organization who (a) register at the same time, and (b) pay the appropriate fee in advance of the course

f. Cancellation policy: Cancellation may be made up to 30 calendar days before the start of the course. After that, registrants will be liable for the full amount of the course. Substitutions may be made at any time up to the start of the course.

g. Point of contact: For questions about the technical content of the course, please contact the course coordinator and lecturer, Dr. Donald Carlucci, at .
For administrative and contractual matters contact Computational Mechanics Associates at (410) 532-3260.


4. Instruction

The instructor for this course is Donald E. Carlucci, P. E., Ph.D. Dr. Carlucci has been a Systems Engineer in the Precision Munitions, Mines and Demolitions Division at the U.S. Army Armament, Research, Development and Engineering Center, Picatinny Arsenal since May, 1989. He is currently Acting Chief for the Precision Armaments team responsible for the modeling and evaluation of cannon launched guided munitions programs at Picatinny and Chief Scientist for the XM982 Excalibur guided projectile. Dr. Carlucci has formerly held the position of Development Program Officer (Chief Engineer) for Sense and Destroy Armor (SADARM). Prior to employment at Picatinny, Dr. Carlucci was a design engineer for Titanium Industries located in Fairfield, N.J. Dr. Carlucci held positions as Chief Engineer, Quality Assurance Manager and Purchasing Manager for Hoyt Corporation located in Englewood, New Jersey. Dr. Carlucci is a licensed Professional Engineer in the States of New Jersey and New York and holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (2002) and Master of Engineering (Mechanical) (1995) degree from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N.J. In 1987, Dr. Carlucci received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J. Dr. Carlucci is an Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology teaching graduate classes on Interior, Exterior and terminal Ballistics as well as undergraduate classes on engineering design.



5. Registration To register, call (410-532-3260) or fax (410-532-3261) Computational Mechanics Associates. Registrations may also be made through our website, www.compmechanics.com. All registrations will be acknowledged. Do not travel without a registration confirmation!

Unless other arrangements are made, payment is due either at the time of registration or no later than 30 calendar days before the start of the course. We accept VISA and MASTERCARD credit cards, corporate checks and purchase orders.
Please register 30 days before the start of the course