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Explosives Engineering Professional Affiliate of the Engineering Council UK Explosives Engineering Professional Affiliate of the Engineering Council UK 40th Anniversary Journal Awards Results Page 4 Effect of end shape on blast from cylindrical charges Page 28 THE JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF EXPLOSIVES ENGINEERS March 2014 Contents Contents Features Regulars Best practice for Commercial Explosive Ordnance 8 Disposal (EOD) in Great Britain Institute News 2 Ken Cross MBE CEng MSc BSc(Hons) FIExpE Tech Spec 34 Critical review of novel detection 12 methods for buried explosives The Bennett file 36 Holli Kimbl e MEng MSc MIExpE Sidney Alford column 37 A cost effective method for preliminary 16 explosive characterisation Industry News 38 Andrew Envy BEng AIExpE Conference/Exhibition Diary 40 D10 dozer recovered from a 21 In a flash - Ben Hoge BA (Criminal 40 high wall using blasting Justice) I.A.A.I CFI CFEI MIExpE Tristan Worsey BSc MSc MISEE A history of explosives: as they 26 Front cover picture: Images through SEM (scanning electron relate to the UK microscope) of blackpowder Ian McKay CEng MPhil BSc DipH&S FIMM FIExp E (left) and SEM of spherical agglomerate of gun propellant grade n-guanylurea dinitramide (GuDN/Fox-12) (Centre for Defence Effect of end shape on blast from cylindrical charges 28 Chemistry, Cranfield Scott Bradley BEng MSc(EOE) University). The Institute of Explosives Engineers Editor Suite 3, 7–8 Mill Street, Stafford ST16 2AJ Diane Hall Telephone and fax: 01785 240154 Telephone: +44 (0)1729 840765 Email: [email protected] Mobile: +44 (0)7778 063373 www.iexpe.org Email: [email protected] [email protected] Institute of Explosives Engineers Design and Print/Production and Registered Office: Advertising Manager 141 Victoria Road, Swindon SN1 3BU Gordon Hunt Company No. 07905911 Company limited by guarantee Gordon Hunt Design Telephone: +44 (0)1726 832594 Email: [email protected] The Institute of Explosives Engineering Explosives Engineers Distributed quarterly to all members of the Institute of Explosives Engineers. The IExpE logo is a UK registered To non-members or for additional copies to members, including p&p. trade mark owned by IExpE Single copies:- UK £8.80, EU £11.20, World £12.40. Annual subscription:- UK £34.50, EU £44.10, World £48.90 To obtain copies, contact Explosives Engineering Subscriptions at the Institute address above. Cheques should be made payable in sterling to the Institute of Explosives Engineers. Papers, articles and letters to the Editor are welcome and should be sent to the Editor at her email address, or by post to the Institute address. Opinions expressed in the Journal are those of the authors concerned. Professional Affiliate of ECUK They do not necessarily represent the views of the Institute 01 Institute News categories and so thank you to all those who always available on the web. The Institute entered. The winning articles from each holds a range of documents which have The category are elsewhere in the journal as are now been catalogued by Dr Ian Barnes and President details of the Awards presentation. we intend to put that list on the website so members can see what we hold. We are At the end of January we hosted a visit of speaks considering exactly which documents to our counterparts from EUExcert Sweden. retain and where they will be held. It is a sad The last EUExcert project ended with 8 out fact of life that as establishments have of 10 partner nations agreeing to adopt and closed libraries have too often been closed adapt the UK National Occupational and their contents destroyed. If any I hope that when you opened this edition of Standards (NOS) as the basis for certification members have documents they think would the journal you noticed that it was slightly of explosives workers. As there have been be worth keeping please let the Secretariat different. Our Journal Committee have many changes in people and structures in know and we will consider finding a home updated the design, typeface and paper to Sweden, it was agreed that the aim of the for them. mark our 40 years as an Institute and to week was to provide an introduction to the modernise the style we launched for the NOS and their implementation as the basis Looking forward to the AGM and after the 30th Anniversary. The Institute was formed of qualifications and also as management request at last year’s you will have seen that in 1974 and this is included in a history of tools. The week was a great success and we we have moved the venue to Scotland this explosives in this journal. Since our formation look forward to the next phase of year and we hope that those in Scotland and we have come a long way and we must be collaboration across Europe in this area. the North of England will take the very grateful to our founding fathers for opportunity of a shorter journey to support Members of the Institute have also been setting up the Institute. We should be very both functions. Details are to be found on involved with the GEMS meeting. GEMS proud that we are now a Professional page 7 and if you have not yet booked in, do stands for Group of Experts in Mitigation Affiliate of the Engineering Council and not delay and I look forward to seeing you Systems. It was formed in December 1999 those members who wish to do so can seek all in Scotland. professional registration with the and held its inaugural meeting at COTEC Engineering Council. (Cranfield Ordnance Test and Evaluation Finally to Council matters, first it is with Centre). The group is managed by CPNI sadness that I have to inform you that Peter I recently represented the Institute at a (Centre for the Protection of National Norton has had to resign from Council professional engineering forum at the MOD Infrastructure) and has expanded over the because of his other commitments and site at Abbey Wood and I was approached years to include embedded members across through the pages of the Journal I would by several graduates and apprentices who Government departments and agencies. like to thank him on your behalf for the work were interested in professional registration Individual members are encouraged to he has done as Technical Officer and for the but were unsure where to start. We need to network, communicate challenges and articles he has written. As I step down from keep pushing the message to those starting present their findings and questions to the the Presidency at the AGM, the President for off in their careers that if they are interested wider Group. The Group meets each January next year will be John Wolstenholme and in professional registration then join an in a different location; this year AWE hosted the two Vice Presidents will be Mike Bolland Institute and start recording their CPD the meeting and next year DSTL will be and Paul Harris. We are looking for new activities. inviting GEMS members along to one of members of Council and I encourage you all To commemorate our forty years we held their establishments. to vote for those you would like to see on Council. Thank you for your support over the 40th Anniversary Journal Awards In an industry as diverse as explosives, the last two years, it has been a great competition to encourage those interested networking is very important and so I draw privilege to have been the President of such to write and submit a paper on aspects of your attention to the Linkedin group we run. a vibrant and growing Institute. explosives engineering. There were four It is also very important to have the ability to categories, Fellows, Members, Associates find information that you need and it is not and Non-members. We had responses in all A J Morley MSc BSc MIExpE Professional Registration update Professional Registration statistics as at February 1st 2014: to maintaining a high quality of working, continuous professional CEng IEng EngTech development, and compliance with a professional code of ethics, QUALIFIED 16 43 environmental and safety standards. It is not an onerous task and IN PROGRESS 710 those who are already registered will testify to its value in their professional lives. PRI Assessor training: on 27th February 2014, Col Gareth Collett and Dr Chris Owen will attend the Society of Environmental Engineers PRI To apply for professional registration call or email the Institute office: Assessor training to be held at Lockheed Martin's facility in Ampthill. Tel +44 (0)1785 240154; Email [email protected] Professional Registration. All Members and Fellows of the Institute For more information, contact Ken Cross: Tel +44 (0)7805 053791 should give serious consideration to professional registration in one Email: [email protected] of the grades available (EngTech, IEng, CEng). Professional registration is your personal quality mark that demonstrates to others in the Ken Cross MBE CEng MSc BSc(Hons) FIExpE profession and potential employers or clients that you are committed 02 Institute News EUExcert UK report Certifying Expertise in European Explosives Sector Swedish (SWE) mobility visit hoped that it will include partner EUExcert type of project. The Key Actions of 27th to 31st January 2014 participation in implementing the NOS to a Erasmus+ are described in full on the IExpE The long-awaited visit of our counterparts certain (to be determined) level such as at website. Key Action 1 of Erasmus+ is to from EUExcert SWE took place from 27th to least one explosives worker in one or two support mobility visits for learners and staff 31st January 2014. The last EUExcert project companies in the partner nation having from programme nations, of which both UK ended with 8 out of 10 partner nations qualified in a vocational qualification, with and SWE are part.
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