New Approach to Predict Hugoniot Properties of Explosives Materials

Abstract

To better design energetic materials and predict their energy output and response it is necessary to characterise these materials in terms of their energetics. Indeed, this characterisation demands a series of experiments ranging from slow cook off of the material to high velocity flyer plate impact tests are necessary to obtain parameters such as the detonation velocity, densities, shock and particle velocities and critical pressures. These experimental parameters are required to obtain the Chapman-Jouguet parameters that define the point at which the detonation occurs. The mean objective of this work is to conduct numerical experiments to examine the parameters that define detonation process and establish a completely numerical approach by using quantum mechanics and analytical methods.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 12, 2015
Accession Number
AD1004200

Entities

People

  • Amal Bouamoul
  • Dennis Nandlall
  • Hakima Abou-rachid
  • Mounir Jaidann

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter IED
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Reactions
  • Chemistry
  • Computational Science
  • Density Functional Theory
  • Detonations
  • Electron Density
  • Energetic Materials
  • Equations
  • Explosives
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Of Formation
  • Heat Of Sublimation
  • Materials
  • Quantum Chemistry
  • Specific Heat
  • Specific Volume
  • Sublimation

Readers

  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Quantum Computing