NWC Standard Methods for Determining Thermal Properties of Propellants and Explosives.

Abstract

As a part of the qualification of explosives and propellants for Navy use, the thermal properties of explosives and propellants are required to be able to make a prediction of the safety of these materials in production, transportation, storage, and use. A number of methods for determining the thermal properties of materials have been developed and standardized over the years. These fall into three groups: (1) laboratory tests using less than 1 gram of material: DTA/TGA, DSC, and specific heat and isothermal composition tests; (2) intermediate size tests using 1 to 5 pounds of material: thermal diffusivity, and fast and slow cook-off tests, and (3) full-scale fast cook-off. Examples are used to illustrate the data available from each test. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADB046074

Entities

People

  • Carl M. Anderson
  • Jack M. Pakulak Jr.

Organizations

  • Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter IED
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arrhenius Equation
  • Blast
  • Carbonate Esters
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Combustion
  • Explosives
  • Heat Of Reaction
  • Heat Transfer
  • Measurement
  • Munitions
  • Munitions Testing
  • Recording Systems
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Thermal Conductivity
  • Thermal Diffusivity
  • Thermal Properties
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Rocket Propulsion.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Thermal Physics or Thermal Science.