Publications (Technical Reports)

O-198 NATO Standards And Practice For Munitions Safety And Insensitive Munitions
10 October 2018
The NATO Munitions Safety Information Analysis Center (MSIAC) is a multinational collaboration that collects, stores, and analyses technical information related to Munitions Safety (MS) and Insensitive Munitions (IM).
O-197 Gap Test And Critical Diameter Calculations And Correlations
10 October 2018
The Munitions Safety Information and Analysis Center (MSIAC) has developed a number of safety related computational tools, including NEWGATES (New Excel Worksheets on GAp TESts) [1] which is a large data base and computational tool for gap test data.
O-196 Insensitive Munitions Explosive Ordnance Disposal Challenges
10 October 2018
Development of appropriate procedures for the disposal of explosive ordnance are mandated by NATO STANAG 2143 (AEODP-10).
O-195 Slow Heating Testing Survey And Historical Events Review
10 October 2018
This report describes the results of an international review of the STANAG 4382 Slow Heating, Munitions Test Procedures, as well a review of heating rates and durations associated with actual fire events.
O-200 MSIAC Workshop 2018: Improved Explosives And Munitions Risk Management
02 October 2018
MSIAC is organizing a workshop to exploit an improved understanding of munitions vulnerability and consequences to deliver improvements in explosives and munitions risk management.
O-199 Physical Effects And Consequences From Detonations And Less Violent Munition Responses
02 October 2018
An increasing number of warhead designs shows a less violent response than Detonation (type I) in cook off or impact scenarios. In order to quantify the safety benefits, MSIAC is working on improvements in the risk management of such munitions.
L-227 Probabilistic Aspects Of Munition Initiation Due To Fragment Impact
01 October 2018
A probabilistic analytic model of initiation for the Insensitive Munitions (IM) Fragment Impact test was developed. The deterministic Jacobs-Roslund detonation initiation model was augmented to include impact point offset and projectile tilt against a curved munition case. This augmenta
O-193 How to Determine TNT Equivalency for Energetic Materials and Munitions?
01 October 2018
TNT equivalency is commonly used to quantify the explosive effects of energetic materials and munitions. For scientific purposes, it is a means to compare the explosive effects delivered by different energetic compositions.
L-228 History of Natural Fragmentation Models
01 October 2018
When dealing with the performance of munitions and warheads, the most important parameters to characterize are the mass distribution of fragments and their velocity.
O-178 Review of Munitions Safety Processes within MSIAC Nations
28 September 2018
This Study was agreed by the MSIAC Steering Committee (SC) to support their need to have access to an independent, comparative review of approaches to Ageing and Life Assessment of Munitions across a representative number of (MSIAC) nations. The expected benefits of the study included:&nb

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