Energetic Materials Hazard Initiation: DoD Assessment Team Final Report

Abstract

The Army, Navy, and Air Force Energetic Materials Hazard Initiation Assessment Team (EMHIAT) was established in late 1985 to identify basic and applied research needs to mitigate hazards, particularly for solid rocket propellants, represented by unplanned initiation in manufacturing or handling fielded systems and during processing of energetic materials. The team has surveyed the solid rocket industry, the DoE contractor laboratories, and DoD efforts related to explosives, gun, and rocket propellants. Findings of the survey and a Long-range Plan for Hazards are summarized in the present report. In July 1986 the DoD Joint Requirements Oversight Council issued criteria for Insensitive Munitions, all of which contain energetic materials. EMHIAT strongly recommends the Plan documented here as essential to meeting these criteria in a cost effective and timely fashion.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 05, 1987
Accession Number
ADA181932

Entities

People

  • Arthur M. Mellor
  • Thom L. Boggs

Organizations

  • Army Research Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Kinetics
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Chemistry
  • Combustion
  • Energy Transfer
  • Explosions
  • Explosives
  • Insensitive Explosives
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Science
  • Materials Testing
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanics
  • Munitions Testing
  • Propulsion Systems
  • Solid Propellants
  • Test Methods

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Rocket Propulsion.