Publications - Energetic Materials

The following sections of this document are dealing with the principal elements of the compression wave initiation models that have been developed over the years and implemented in hydrocodes.
This includes:

This report discusses an issue that is currently of interest to the IM community: cook-off.

One area that has created great interest over the last few years in the insensitive munitions field is the existence and properties of reduced sensitivity-RDX (RS-RDX).

The aims of the meeting were:

As a response to the recommendations from the NIMIC Cost and Benefits Analysis workshop (Sweden, June 2001), NIMIC completed the development of the Cost Benefit Analysis Model (CBAM). The purpose of CBAM is to aid in the assessment of the costs and benefits of introducing IM into service.

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The report is restricted, the title and the abstract are unclassified, unlimited distribution

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The aim of this document is to define the methods to be used for the RS-RDX Round Robin (R4) programme designed to assist in the identification and validation of methods suitable to discriminate between normal RDX and Reduced Sensitivity - (RS-) RDX.

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