Publications - Warhead Technology

The Fragment Impact Database (FRAID) gathers information related to fragment impact (FI) test results. In order to be as user friendly as possible, it was decided to develop the database under Excel.

Since the 1990s a large number of insensitive energetic materials have been under consideration for insensitive munitions purposes.  After the landmark paper by Doherty and Simpson [4], new candidate materials have entered the field and others have vanished for different reasons.

The Database of Ammunition Reaction Trials to Shaped charge aggression (DARTS) is currently available to MSIAC member nations and contains Shaped Charge Jet Impact (SCJI) test results.

In-service mortar shells are usually filled with Composition B.  These mortars, however, exhibit a poor IM signature as shown in table 1.

TEMPER, an acronym for Toolbox for Engineering Models to Predict Explosive Reactions, is a "toolbox" of empirical and analytical models dedicated to ammunition safety.

TEMPER, an acronym for Toolbox for Engineering Models to Predict Explosive Reactions, is a "library" of empirical, analytical and numerical models dedicated to ammunition safety.

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The Sympathetic Reaction Database (SYR) contains information related to sympathetic reaction (SR) test results. In order to be as user friendly as possible, it was decided to develop the database under Excel.

The Excel worksheets on GAp TESts (NEWGATES) version 1.6 contains information related to gap tests. In order to be as user friendly as possible, it was decided to develop the database under Excel.

At the request of its Steering Committee and several customers, MSIAC has collected information in relation to test facilities that offer their IM testing services commercially to outside customers.