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Shear Initiated Reactions in Energetic and Reactive Materials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Denise Meuken ,
Maria Martines Pacheco ,
Ries Verbeek ,
Richard Bouma  and
L Katgerman
Denise Meuken
Affiliation:
meuken@pml.tno.nl, TNO Defense Security and Safety, PO Box 45, Rijswijk, the Netherlands, 2280 AA, Netherlands, +31152843602, +31152843997
Maria Martines Pacheco
Affiliation:
martinez@pml.tno.nl, Netherlands
Ries Verbeek
Affiliation:
verbeek@pml.tno.nl, Netherlands
Richard Bouma
Affiliation:
bouma@pml.tno.nl
L Katgerman
Affiliation:
katgerman@tudelft.nl, Netherlands
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Abstract

Deformation of energetic materials may cause undesired reactions and therefore hazardous situations. The deformation of an energetic material and in particular shear deformation is studied in this paper. Understanding of the phenomena leading to shear initiation is not only necessary to explain for example the response of munitions to intrusions or large deformations imposed in storage and transportation accidents. A fundamental understanding of shear initiation also provides the opportunity to initiate energetic materials in a different and controlled manner, and possibly with a tailored reaction rate of the material. Several small and large scale experiments have been performed in which a shear deformation is imposed onto high explosives as well as thermite based reactive materials. Experiments are numerically simulated in order to correlate small and large scale experiments and understand the initiation mechanisms.

Keywords

reactivitysimulationenergetic material
Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 896: Symposium H – Multifunctional Energetic Materials , 2005 , 0896-H06-06
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2006

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