Patent ID: 8459185
Filing Date: 2013-06-11
Classification: F42B,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for generating a projectile, the method comprising: affixing a directed-detonation-wave explosive device to a wall adjacent to a proximal wall surface, wherein an explosive charge of the directed-detonation-wave explosive device is directly contacting the proximal wall surface; detonating the directed-detonation-wave explosive device to produce directed detonation waves that collide and reflect within the directed-detonation-wave explosive device to concentrate detonation wave energy in an annular pattern within the directed-detonation-wave explosive device; inducing annular patterned shock waves in the wall using the annular pattern of detonation wave energy, thereby causing an annular patterned structural failure of wall material; and generating a projectile from a distal wall surface of wall material that was circumscribed by the annular patterned shock waves.