Composition B Damage Studies

Abstract

The shotgun/friability test was used to evaluate the vulnerability of the melt cast explosive, Composition B, to mechanical insult. Cylindrical and spherical configurations were damaged using an 18-millimeter (mm) smooth bore gun. Despite the lack of optimum combustion performance, the experiment was useful in demonstrating the effects of impact damage on the energetic material. The recovered spherical debris was dry screened with the sample distribution resulting in a bimodal distribution. The individual size fractions of the explosive were returned to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for further analysis.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA603031

Entities

People

  • A. I. Atwood
  • C. J. Wheeler
  • E. Woods
  • I. Purifoy
  • K. P. Ford

Organizations

  • Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aerial Warfare
  • Burning Rate
  • Cameras
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Closed Bomb Tests
  • Combustion
  • Combustion Products
  • Data Acquisition
  • Energetic Materials
  • Explosives
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Particle Size
  • Particles
  • Photographs
  • Rdx

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aviation Safety Risk Assessment.
  • Rocket Propulsion.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.