Accession Number:

AD0745344

Title:

Explosive Behavior of Aluminized Ammonium Perchlorate

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

NAVAL ORDNANCE LAB WHITE OAK MD

Personal Author(s):

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

Report Date:

1972-05-01

Pagination or Media Count:

83.0

Abstract:

Addition of aluminum to ammonium perchlorate AP increases its infinite diameter detonation velocity, decreases its critical diameter and at sufficiently low TMD the Eyring reaction zone length. For 7-9 microns AP and 7 microns Al, the maximum of these effects occurred at about 10 Al. Regular detonation behavior could be observed only in the range of 55 to 40 or lower TMD. All mixtures tested in this range exhibited group 2 behavior as does AP itself.

Descriptors:

• *AMMONIUM PERCHLORATE
• *COMPOSITE PROPELLANTS
• VELOCITY
• PARTICLE SIZE
• EXPERIMENTAL DATA
• DETONATION WAVES
• ALUMINIZED EXPLOSIVES
• DEFLAGRATION
• PREPARATION
• EXPLOSIVE CHARGES
• DETONATIONS

Subject Categories:

• Explosions
• Solid Rocket Propellants

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE