Publications - Warhead Technology

This paper was prepared for presentation at the 2002 Finnish Explosives Society Annual Conference, which was held in Kuopio, Finland on 29-30 May 2002. The theme of the conference was "Accidents".

A NIMIC workshop, entitled IM Assessment Methodology, was conducted in cooperation with NATO AC/310 in March 2002, in Nettuno, Italy.

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.
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AC/310 SG 4 agreed that the fundamental differences in approach to IM national policies should be resolved before preparing a new edition of STANAG 4439 and tasked NIMIC to conduct an investigation of IM methodologies applied by each country for assessing the IMness of munition

AC/310 SG 4 agreed that the fundamental differences in approach to IM national policies should be resolved before preparing a new edition of STANAG 4439 and tasked NIMIC to conduct an investigation of IM methodologies applied by each country for assessing the IMness of munition

A NIMIC workshop, entitled IM Design Technology, sponsored by the Defence Ordnance Safety Group (DOSG, UK) in September 2003, was held in Shrivenham, UK. The aims of the workshop in respect of gun propelling charge design were:

A NIMIC workshop, entitled IM Design Technology, will be conducted in cooperation with the Defence Ordnance Safety Group (DOSG, UK) in September 2003, in Shrivenham, UK. The aims of the workshop will be:

Thermal threats to munitions lurk everywhere and a wide range of heating rates is expected in the actual threat environment.

Depending on the circumstances in which people conduct their work, be it the military or industrial safety environments, the term Threat (and) Hazard Assessment (THA) has tended to have different interpretations and to be conducted using different approaches.

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