Publications - Materials Technology

L-221 Lifecycle of flare countermeasures Report 3 Ageing and degradation
July 2018
Flare countermeasures are traditionally a mixture of magnesium, Teflon® and Viton® (MTV). Historically, information regarding MTV flares was subject to national security restrictions.
Rebecca Millar, MSIAC Stokes Fellow (2018)
O-185 Property-processing implications in additive manufactured materials for munitions
July 2018
Additive manufacturing (also referred to as AM) offers many opportunities in the munitions design space to tailor bulk properties, such as spatially-variant composition, density, etc., with intent to subsequently affect macro behaviour through changes in stress/stra
Wade G. Babcock
O-186 Prior NATO scientific and technical activities in Munitions Health Management
July 2018
Over the past 20 years, the community of technical practitioners in munitions safety, quality assurance, life cycle assessment, and life extension throughout NATO have worked to accumulate and disseminate the Alliance’s knowledge on these topics, to facilitate exchange, gr
Wade G. Babcock
L-220 Lifecycle of flare countermeasures Report 2 Manufacture to disposal
July 2018
Flare countermeasures are traditionally a mixture of magnesium, Teflon® and Viton® (MTV). Historically, information regarding MTV flares was subject to national security restrictions.
Rebecca Millar
O-187 An international review of the use of environmental data loggers in peace-time and operations
July 2018
This paper provides a brief introduction to an MSIAC report which provides an overview of the use of environmental data loggers and of the data that is registered.
Wade G. Babcock
O-184 Ageing and mechanical damage of munition materials
April 2018
The Munitions Safety Information Analysis Center (MSIAC) is preparing a report that collects the most common age-induced degradation mechanisms, as they pertain to the most common materials applied to munition systems.
Wade G. Babcock
O-190 Qualification and Energetic Materials Challenges
April 2018
As part of energetic material qualification, this paper will review recent discussions with respect to the required parameters for modeling energetic materials, the methodology required in acquiring these parameters, the current processes that demand experimentation, and what is still needed to b
Dr Matthew AndrewsWade Babcock
L-213 Material Parameters for IM related modeling and simulation efforts
September 2017
This report documents MSIAC’s generation of a consolidated guide to energetic material parameters needed for typical IM modeling and simulation efforts. An explanation of tests and experiments to determine the parameters will also be included.
Wade Babcock
L-205 Material Damage Focus Area
June 2017
This document summarizes output from the Material Damage Focus Area breakout session of the MSIAC science of cook-off workshop held in Atlanta, 25th to 29th April 2016.

Dr Michael SharpMalcolm Cook
L-206 Violence of Reaction Focus Area
June 2017
This document summarizes output from the Violence of Reaction Focus Area breakout session of the MSIAC Science of Cook Off workshop held in Atlanta, 25th to 29th April 2016.

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