Publications - Energetic Materials

This document is the first product of a programme to collate data on the physical and chemical properties of new explosive ingredients that is normally dispersed throughout many papers, journals and laboratory notebooks.

This document contains the Proceedings of the 3-day NIMIC Workshop on Sensitivity of Energetic Materials when Fractured or Granular held at the US Army Edgewood Conference Center, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD (USA) during the period 19-21 July 1993.

Ce document contient le compte-rendu de l'atelier NIMIC 1993 sur la sensibilité des matériaux énergétiques fracturés ou granulaires, tenu à l'US  Army Edgewood Conference Center, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD (Etats-Unis) du 19 au 21 juillet 1993.

To improve on the performance of currently used propellants by making the best use of the many, presently available, new energetic ingredients and propellant formulations.

Designers, programme managers and users of weapon systems need to be constantly aware of the hazards which may result from munitions exposed to stimuli that may occur during their service life as the result of accidental or aggressive threats. These threats include:

It is obvious frorn the literature that there have been significant developnients in the synthesis of new ingredients for use in explosives and propellants in recent years.

Dans le présent recueil sont récapitulés, classés et analysés un nombre de documents publiés entre 1987 et 1992 dans deux domaines apparentés :

This survey compiles, arranges and analyses a number of documents issued between 1987 and 1992 on two germane topics:

This document is the first product of a programme to collate data on the physical and chemical properties of new explosive ingredients that is normally dispersed throughout many papers, journals and laboratory notebooks.

This document discusses the need for the rational characterisation of the new energetic materials that have been developed in recent years, and it proposes a coordinated collaboration program whereby the properties of these materials can be collated and assessed.