LX-10 Explosive Damage Studies

Abstract

Cylindrical and spherical explosive geometries were damaged using an 18-millimeter (mm) smooth bore gun. Burning rates of the undamaged LX-10 sample were determined and used to evaluate the change in burn area ratio of the cylindrical samples using the closed bomb. The recovered spherical debris was dry screened with the majority of the sample distribution resulting in fragments in the two coarsest size fractions. 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 03, 2015
Accession Number
ADA614073

Entities

People

  • A. I. Atwood
  • C. J. Wheeler
  • E. Woods
  • I. Purifoy

Organizations

  • Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Burning Rate
  • Cameras
  • Closed Bomb Tests
  • Combustion
  • Data Acquisition
  • Energetic Materials
  • Explosives
  • Geometric Forms
  • Geometry
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Particle Size
  • Photographs
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Rocket Propellants
  • Solid Rocket Propellants

Readers

  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Mathematics or Statistics
  • ballistics.