Abstract
The constructive application of explosives in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Queen's began in the early 1960s when Professor B. Crossland, FRS entered the then relatively new field of explosive welding. In the following years, a considerable amount of work was done on the application of explosive welding to the cladding of plate metals and to the welding of tubes into tube plates. In 1970, work began on the use of explosives in the compaction of powders.
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