CASE Study
Semi-automatic Reddy Tube (Shock Tube)
Table top semi-automatic Reddy tube is the product of “Instrument Fabrication centre”, Sacred Heart College Tirupattur . This shock tube is capable of producing 500 shock pulses per hour having Mach number ranging from 1 to 4.5 by suitable diaphragms. An air compressor is used to supply driver gas into the driver section.
Technical Specifications
- Driver and driven sections: Seamless SS tube
- Driver gas: Air
- Pneumatic Pistons : 40 mm bore
- Diaphragm : paper/plastic/metal sheet
- Operating pressure: 5 bar
- Sensor: Condenser microphones
- Maximum Mach number : 4.5
- Maximum pressure (P5): 15.6 MPa
- Maximum Temperature(T5): 3085 K
- Total weight: 30 kg