Study of Plastic Explosives based on Attractive Cyclic Nitramines, Part II. Detonation Characteristics of Explosives with Polyfluorinated Binders. Issue 2 (22nd January 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Elbeih, Ahmed; Pachman, Jiri; Zeman, Svatopluk; Trzcinski, Waldemar A.; Suceska, Muhamed
• Is Part Of: Propellants, explosives, pyrotechnics. Volume 38:Issue 2(2013:Apr.)
• Page Start: 238
• Page End: 243
• Publication Date: 2013-01-22
• Subjects: Propellants -- Periodicals; Explosives -- Periodicals; 662.2
• DOI: 10.1002/prep.201100073
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0721-3115

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" xml:lang="en"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>A series of plastic bonded explosives (PBXs) based on Viton A and Fluorel binders were prepared using four nitramines, namely RDX (1, 3, 5‐trinitro‐1, 3, 5‐triazinane), β‐HMX (β‐1, 3, 5, 7‐tetranitro‐1, 3, 5, 7‐tetrazocane), BCHMX (<italic>cis</italic>‐1, 3, 4, 6‐tetranitro‐octahydroimidazo‐[4, 5‐d]imidazole), and ε‐HNIW (ε‐2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12‐hexanitro‐2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12‐hexaazaisowurtzitane). The detonation velocities, <italic>D</italic>, were determined. Detonation parameters were also calculated by means of modified Kamlet &amp; Jacobs method, CHEETAH and EXPLO5 codes. In accordance with our expectations BCHMX based PBXs performed better than RDX based ones. The Urizar coefficient for Fuorel binder was also calculated.</p> </abstract>