Shock tubes provide a controlled environment to propagate shock events such as an explosively driven air blast. Explosively driven shock tubes use detonating energetic materials to generate shock waves. In order to replicate the detonation event of interest, each region of the shock tube must be carefully designed. The work presented in this paper will focus on various configurations of an explosively driven 10° (full angle) conical shock tube and their ability to accurately approximate mid-field air blast environments from detonating explosive charges in the free field. The current work seeks to build upon previous shock tube work done by the author through alleviating the influence of release waves and increasing the performance factor of the shock tube.
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