Energetic Materials: Crystallization, Characterization and Insensitive Plastic Bonded Explosives

The product quality of energetic materials is predominantly determined by the crystallization process applied to produce these materials. It has been demonstrated in the past that the higher the product quality of the solid energetic ingredients, the less sensitive a plastic bonded explosive contain...

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Veröffentlicht in:Propellants, explosives, pyrotechnics explosives, pyrotechnics, 2008-02, Vol.33 (1), p.25-32
Hauptverfasser: van der Heijden, Antoine E. D. M., Creyghton, Yves L. M., Marino, Emanuela, Bouma, Richard H. B., Scholtes, Gert J. H. G., Duvalois, Willem, Roelands, Marc C. P. M.
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Zusammenfassung:The product quality of energetic materials is predominantly determined by the crystallization process applied to produce these materials. It has been demonstrated in the past that the higher the product quality of the solid energetic ingredients, the less sensitive a plastic bonded explosive containing these energetic materials becomes. The application of submicron or nanometric energetic materials is generally considered to further decrease the sensitiveness of explosives. In order to assess the product quality of energetic materials, a range of analytical techniques is available. Recent attempts within the Reduced‐sensitivity RDX Round Robin (R4) have provided the EM community a better insight into these analytical techniques and in some cases a correlation between product quality and shock initiation of plastic bonded explosives containing (RS‐)RDX was identified, which would provide a possibility to discriminate between conventional and reduced sensitivity grades.
ISSN:0721-3115
1521-4087
DOI:10.1002/prep.200800204