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Energetic Materials: Crystallization, Characterization and Insensitive Plastic Bonded Explosives
Author(s) -
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.
Publication year - 2008
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/prep.200800204
Subject(s) - explosive material , energetic material , materials science , crystallization , characterization (materials science) , sensitivity (control systems) , shock (circulatory) , composite material , nanotechnology , chemical engineering , chemistry , organic chemistry , medicine , electronic engineering , engineering
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.