University of California Press, 1980 - Science - 753 pagesAbout 15 years ago, a unique and important flash-radiographic facility became
operational at the I.KIsAlamoe Scientific Laboratory. This facility is known as
PHERMEX, which is an acronym for Pulsed High Energy Radiographic Machine
Emitting X rays. The PHERMEX machine is a high-current, 27-MeV, linear
electron accelerator that produces very intense but short-duration bursts of brems-strahlung
from a thin tungsten target for flash radiographic studies of explosives
and explosive-driven metal systems, The facility was built in the early 1960s to
complement other hydrodynamics facilities at Lm Alamos and to implement
studies of shock waves, jeta, spalling, detonation characteristics of chemical explosives,
and other hydrodynamic phenomena.Contents
Introduction
The PHERMEX facility
Data presentation
references
catalog of shot subjects, PHERMEX shots 1 through 400
