Responsie van Verschillende Munitieartikelen bij Opwarming en Brand (Response of Munitions Items Due to Heating or a Fire)

Abstract

Safety of munitions for personnel and ordnance in all kinds of situations is important. One of the major threats for munitions is heating of munitions (cook-off), direct (fire) as well as indirect heating (fire in adjacent room). In this study the time to cook-off for several munitions items has been investigated by means of simple 1-dimensional calculations. These calculations have been performed on in-service munitions items, from 35 mm up to 155 mm, with fillings as HMX, RDX and TNT or a combination of this. Also research has been carried out on gun propellants in general. From these results, guidelines have been given to improve the regulations for fire fighting as written in MP 40-21 `Voorschrift voor opslag van gevaarlijke stoffen' or the `Brandweeropleiding Brandmeester'.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA473774

Entities

People

  • J. H. Scholtes
  • V. Verboom

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemistry
  • Classification
  • Computer Simulations
  • Containers
  • Diameters
  • Double Base Propellants
  • Energetic Materials
  • Fires
  • Gun Propellants
  • Howitzers
  • Insensitive Explosives
  • Munitions
  • Physical Chemistry
  • Propellants
  • Safety
  • Security
  • Spreadsheet Software

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  • Fire Suppression Systems Design.
  • Marine Propulsion Engineering and Naval Architecture
  • ballistics.