EXPLOSIVE BEHAVIOR OF A SIMPLE COMPOSITE PROPELLANT MODEL

Abstract

AP/Wax mixtures were used to model a simple composite propellant. Addition of wax to the AP increased its infinite diameter detonation velocity, increased its shock sensitivity, decreased its critical diameter and its reaction zone length. The maximum of these effects occurred at about 20% wax. At this composition, the model is an explosive comparable to TNT.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 11, 1969
Accession Number
AD0689353

Entities

People

  • A. R. Clairmont Jr.
  • David J. Edwards
  • Donna Price
  • John O. Erkman

Organizations

  • Naval Ordnance Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter IED
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Agreements
  • Ammonium Perchlorate
  • Burning Rate
  • Chemical Reaction Properties
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Combustion
  • Composite Materials
  • Composite Propellants
  • Decomposition
  • Diameters
  • Dissociation
  • Equations
  • Exponential Functions
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Particle Size
  • Reaction Time

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • ballistics.