Chemical furnace for preheating in dynamic consolidation experiments

A new method is developed for specimen preheating with subsequent loading by shock waves and conservation of the products of shock consolidation; the method is based on the use of the chemical furnace energy produced by a thermal explosion or combustion of SHS systems. The use of the thermal explosion expands the range of pre-shock heating temperatures up to 3000$^\circ$C and the range of mean pressures in the cylindrical ampoule up to 25 GPa. Two variants of preheating are considered: an inert specimen is heated by heat release in a reacting SHS system or the specimen under study itself is an SHS system.