Accession Number:

AD0689353

Title:

EXPLOSIVE BEHAVIOR OF A SIMPLE COMPOSITE PROPELLANT MODEL

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

NAVAL ORDNANCE LAB WHITE OAK MD

Personal Author(s):

• Price, Donna
• Erkman, John O.
• Clairmont , Jr., A. R.
• Edwards, David J.

Report Date:

1969-03-11

Pagination or Media Count:

65.0

Abstract:

APWax mixtures were used to model a simple composite propellant. Addition of wax to the AP increased its infinite diameter detonation velocity, increased its shock sensitivity, decreased its critical diameter and its reaction zone length. The maximum of these effects occurred at about 20 wax. At this composition, the model is an explosive comparable to TNT.

Descriptors:

• *COMPOSITE PROPELLANTS
• AMMONIUM PERCHLORATE
• BURNING RATE
• DETONATION WAVES
• DETONATIONS
• PARTICLE SIZE
• REACTION KINETICS
• SENSITIVITY
• VELOCITY
• WAXES

Subject Categories:

• Explosions
• Liquid Rocket Propellants

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE