The Nominal/Generic Specific Heat per Average Atom Concept for CHNO Energetic Materials

Abstract

This document is a follow on to U.S. Army Micom TR-RD-SS-95-2, AMCOM-TR-RD-SS-98-2, and TR-RD-SS-06-09 that related plane impact shock sensitivity of CHNO energetic materials to specific heat per average atom magnitude and Reactive Temperature (T(r)) conditions. Observation of the C(p) per average atom versus absolute Temperature (T) plots revealed relatively little difference in magnitude for seven important explosive compounds. Thus, a universal nominal/generic C(p) per average atom is proposed for CHNO energetic materials. This report is devoted to substantiating this N/G C(p) per average atom concept and illustrating its practical utilization via examples for TNT, HMX, and PBX-9502.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA454169

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People

  • James P. Billingsley

Organizations

  • Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center

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Communities of Interest

  • Counter IED
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Energetic Materials
  • Energy
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Explosions
  • Explosives
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Transfer
  • Insensitive Explosives
  • Materials
  • Materials Science
  • Military Research
  • Phase Transformations
  • Plastic Bonded Explosives
  • Security
  • Specific Heat
  • Thermodynamics

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