Assessing the hazard potentials of explosives has been an exceptionally difficult endeavor in the past due to the considerable controversies that abound in the area of sensitivity testing. Interpretation of the significance of the various test methods' results, conflicting results from apparently similar test methods, and even the definition of the word sensitivity are the frequent subjects of debate among the experts. As a result, very little useful information has ...
This study is to quantify, if possible, the hazardous effects of the machining variables. Initiation of an explosive is a thermal phenomena where input energy, regardless of its form (impact, shock, etc.), is converted to heat, increasing internal energy until an activation level is reached - an exothermic chemical reaction occurs providing heat for additional reactions to occur, continuing the cycle, until a 'runaway' condition exists. Therefore, if the effect ...
A previous technical report described a simple empirical relationship between detonation velocity at theoretical maximum density and a factor, F, that is dependent solely upon chemical composition and structure. The explosives ranged from nitro-aromatics, cyclic and linear nitramines, nitrate esters and nitro-nitrato aliphatics to zero hydrogen explosives, carbonless explosives and hydrogen rich explosives. Minor modifications have been made to the equations presented in that report, including a correction factor for ...
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