Timeline for When using explosives can the effect of an obstacle exceed the force of removing the obstacle?
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| Jul 19, 2021 at 11:13 | comment | added | Al Brown | That symmetry thing is important. Round stuff is very strong when pushed on evenly without local stress points | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 11:10 | comment | added | Al Brown | Right. It depends also on whether it blocks the explosion from just going around the sides of it, which I didnt mention. I also didnt mention that introducing asymmetries to the explosion could bend it. So if it blocks the explosion but not evenly. (A bullet is symmetrical). But the key idea is that you have to accelerate the blockage uber fast and can generate some force that way too, and if also not symmetrically then... If it is light ENOUGH then no it couldnt. I cant say they aren’t exaggerating at all, but it’s perfectly plausible and can happen | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 10:59 | comment | added | releseabe | so you are saying that indeed relatively light-weight material in a gun barrel can cause the metal of the barrel to bend? this is not a myth, then? | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 10:11 | history | answered | Al Brown | CC BY-SA 4.0 |