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The feasibility of mitigating blast/shock loads using materials such as composites and foams is well known. In order to study their attenuation characteristics and to optimize the mitigation of such loads, use of shock tube to generate an exponentially decaying pressure profile (called blast tube here) is a popular technique. Shock waves in liquids (e.g., water), particularly, are capable of meeting this requirement as they are stronger and also uniform [1].
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Samuelraj, I.O., Jagadeesh, G. (2015). Development of a Liquid Blast Tube Facility for Material Testing. In: Bonazza, R., Ranjan, D. (eds) 29th International Symposium on Shock Waves 1. ISSW 2013. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16835-7_12
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