Publications - Materials Technology

This paper links power dissipation in energetic materials to their shock and thermal initiation criteria and their propensity to crack under mechanical strain.

Member nations of NIMIC expressed the desire to reduce the amount of full-scale testing associated with IM assessment.

After defining Sensitivity, Sensitiveness and Explosiveness, the paper examines analytical expressions governing shock initiation by projectile impact, several different non-shock processes of ignition of deflagration and high strain rate fracture mechanics of energetic materials.

In 1997 NIMIC held a Workshop on IM Testing the aim of which was "to write guidance on full-scale IM testing in order to improve confidence in and achieve international acceptability and broader applicability of test results".

During the last 5 years NIMIC has organised a series of Workshops for its nations on IM threat stimuli. These workshops have covered Bullet/Fragment Impact, Cookoff (Slow and Fast), Sympathetic Reaction and Shaped Charge Jet Impingement.

In the interest of providing immediate information resulting from Phase II of this Workshop, NIMIC has prepared Volume III of the IM Testing Workshop Report, covering Bullet Impact, Fragment Impact, Shaped Charge Jet Impact, Spall Impact as well as some considerations on Spigot

The NIMIC Insensitive Munitions award is an initiative of the NlMlC Staff, in particular that of Patrick Kernen, who was in charge of developing Mitigation Methods from 1991 to 1996.

The NATO Insensitive Munition Information Center (NIMIC) has been in operation in Brussels for about five years and now has nine NATO nations plus Australia within its membership.

Ce document contient le compte rendu d'une réunion d'experts sur la rationalisation des tests de sécurité pour munitions, organisée par le NIMIC à la suite du 26ème séminaire du DDESB en août 1994. Cette réunion d'experts s'est déroulée en deux groupes de travail:

The NATO Insensitive Munitions Information Center (NIMIC) held a workshop on "What Makes A Useable New Energetic Material?" at NATO HQ in Brussels, Belgium on 22-24 June 1994.