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The Effect of Humidity on the Friction Sensitiveness of RDX
Author(s) -
Williams Mike,
Wingrave Matthew
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
propellants, explosives, pyrotechnics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.56
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1521-4087
pISSN - 0721-3115
DOI - 10.1002/1521-4087(200209)27:4<241::aid-prep241>3.0.co;2-z
Subject(s) - humidity , relative humidity , water vapor , materials science , adsorption , critical relative humidity , composite material , thermodynamics , meteorology , chemistry , physics , organic chemistry
The effect of humidity on the sensitiveness to initiation by friction has been studied for RDX at different temperatures. The results show that the relative humidity is the dominant factor in determining friction sensitiveness, not temperature as we have previously reported. The adsorption of water vapour on RDX has been measured and correlates with the change in friction sensitiveness.