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A Simple Approach to Assess the Performance of Non‐ideal Aluminum/Ammonium Perchlorate Composite Explosives as Compared to the Best Available Methods
Author(s) -
Jafari Mohammad,
Keshavarz Mohammad Hossein,
Ebadpour Reza
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine chemie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.354
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1521-3749
pISSN - 0044-2313
DOI - 10.1002/zaac.202000269
Subject(s) - detonation , explosive material , ammonium perchlorate , mean absolute percentage error , detonator , aluminium , composite number , approximation error , materials science , computer science , statistics , mathematics , chemistry , composite material , mean squared error , organic chemistry
Composite explosives containing aluminum/ammonium perchlorate (Al/AP) are widely used for blasting cut of old warship, blasting droll and decoupled charge of blast underwater. The available complex computer codes and empirical methods cannot usually provide a reliable estimation of detonation velocities of explosives containing Al/AP. This work introduces a reliable method for the desk calculation of detonation velocity. The percent of the reacted Al with detonation products and decomposition of AP, as well as composition of the detonation products, are specified according to the distribution of oxygen atoms between Al, C(s), CO(g) and H 2 (g). The values of the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of the new model are lower than one of the best available methods for CHNO explosives (260 experimental data) and CHNOFCl explosives (50 measured data). For composite explosives, CHNOFClAl and CHNOFClAlAP, the MAPE value of the new model is 3.50, corresponding to 55 experimental data, which is much smaller than the MAPE values of the BKW computer code (8.37) and the comparative empirical model (14.20).