Acceleration of metal plates by a tangential detonation wave

The studies of the two-dimensional acceleration of metal plates that began in the 1960s at the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences under the supervision of Academician M. A. Lavrent’ev in connection with explosion-welding works are reviewed briefly. Some new results concerning the use of industrial high-explosives (HE) that operate under conditions of nonideal detonation are given.