Publications (Technical Reports)

L-250 Defect Detection And Characterization Capability Study For Energetic Materials
May 2020
Defects in energetic materials or munitions can alter their safety and performance characteristics, potentially leading to failure and causing serious damage to military equipment and injury to service personnel and the public.
Mr. Rodrigue Barlerin (ENSTA Bretagne)Dr. Kevin M. Jaansalu (MSIAC)Dr. Matthew Andrews (MSIAC)Mr. Matthew Ferran (MSIAC)
L-256 A Taxonomy For The Classification Of Defects In Energetic Materials
April 2020
Following many discussions and multiple iterations over two years, MSIAC has produced a largely self-consistent taxonomy and lexicon of terms related to defects in energetic materials and munition systems, based on the paradigm of materials science and engineering.

Matt Ferran (MSIAC)Dr. Matt Andrews (MSIAC)Dr. Kevin Jaansalu (MSIAC)Aurihona Wolff (ENSTA Bretagne)
L-215 A Review Of International Hazard Classification
April 2020
MSIAC maintains a Hazard Classification (HC) database for Ammunition and Explosives (AE) with 16 contributing nations. Governmental personnel from MSIAC member nations are able to access the data through the MSIAC secure website.
Martijn VAN DER VOORTChristelle COLLETMatthew FERRAN
O-217 An International Review On Green Insensitive Plastic Explosives
April 2020
The main characteristics required for plastic explosives are that they are hand-mouldable and that they stick to surfaces on which they are designed to be used.
Christelle Collet (TSO Propulsion Technology)
L-257 Life Cycle Cost Method And Examples For Munition Health Monitoring
March 2020
Within the NATO context, a cost benefit analysis (CBA) is a valuable support tool for economic analysis for defence programs. A major part of any CBA is a sound life cycle cost analysis of all options.
Dr Kevin M. Jaansalu & Ms Christelle Collet, MSIACDr Giuseppe Tussiwand, Haptica s.r.l.Ms Rada Feraco, Department of National Defence, Canada Mr Pieter Jansen & Mr Michail Bozoudis, NCIA
L-218 Material Selection And Property-Processing Implications In Additive Manufactured Materials For Munitions
February 2020
Additive manufacturing (also referred to as AM) offers many opportunities in the munition design space to tailor bulk properties, such as spatially-variant composition, density, etc., with intent to subsequently affect macro behavior through changes in stress/strain profiles, variable
Wade Babcock
L-255 Instrumentation Techniques Velocity of Detonation
February 2020
Detonation properties are part of the performance requirements for any explosive material. They include the density, the detonation pressure and the velocity of detonation (VoD).
Lucas Caylar (ENSTA BRETAGNE, MSIAC)Christelle Collet (MSIAC)
L-106 Directory of IM and HC Testing Facilities - Edition 6
December 2019
At the request of its Steering Committee, MSIAC has collected information in relation to test facilities that perform Insensitive Munitions (IM) testing and Hazard Classification (HC) testing.
Christelle Collet (MSIAC)
L-217 Ageing Of Munition Materials
October 2019
The ageing of materials in munitions as reported in the open literature is reviewed within the framework of materials engineering. The focus is on polymeric materials and molecular solids encountered in energetic materials.
Wade G. BabcockKevin M. Jaansalu
O-212 Slow Heating Test Thermal Equilibrium and Maximum ReactionTemperature
October 2019
STANAG 4382 Slow Heating, Munitions Test Procedures has been reviewed and updated by the AC/326 SG/B Slow Heating Custodial Working Group. As part of this process, questions arose as to guidance for thermal soaking and maximum testing temperature.
Ernest L. BakerDavid Hubble

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