Patent ID: 7861655

Claim:
A method of velocity-induction matching for maintaining super-compressed detonation in any length of a material, comprising; providing a length of material to be compressed and detonated having known detonation velocity and induction delay time under conditions of compression; providing an explosive-clad conical metal flyer shell with an explosive within said shell and an interior cylindrical anvil having an axis and containing the material to be compressed; determining an angle of said conical flyer shell by matching axial velocity of an oblique shock wave system to be generated in said material to said detonation velocity; determining diameter, wall material and thickness of said anvil by matching time exposed to said oblique shock wave system to said induction delay time; compressing said material using the oblique shock wave system generated by reverberation; auto-ignition of a super-compressed detonation wave following said oblique shock wave system after induction delay; and quasi-steady propagation of said super-compressed detonation over the length of said material.