Accession Number:
AD0816021
Title:
SHOCK RESPONSE OF FILLED PLASTICS,
Descriptive Note:
Corporate Author:
ROHM AND HAAS CO HUNTSVILLE AL REDSTONE RESEARCH LABS
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1967-06-01
Pagination or Media Count:
18.0
Abstract:
A method of determining shock Hugoniots of opaque media by means of microwave interferometry is described. This method has been used to determine shock Hugoniots for solid propellants, propellants with dummy oxidizer, and inert binders. It was found that the shock response of solids-filled elastomeric polymers is the same as that of the continuous phase along, at loadings as high as 75 wt. solids. It was also found that ammonium perchlorate decomposes exothermally under shock, even in nondetonable propellants and because of this decomposition, truly non-reactive shock Hugoniots cannot be obtained on live-oxidizer formulations, at least not at shock strengths above 10 kbars. Author
Descriptors:
- *TEST METHODS)
- (*ELASTOMERS
- IMPREGNATION)
- (*SHOCK WAVES
- (*SOLID ROCKET PROPELLANTS
- STABILITY)
- VELOCITY
- BLAST
- AMMONIUM PERCHLORATE
- LOADS(FORCES)
- EQUATIONS OF STATE
- DECOMPOSITION
- DETONATIONS
- HIGH TEMPERATURE
- HIGH PRESSURE
- COMPOSITE PROPELLANTS
- MICROWAVES
- INTERFEROMETERS
- OXIDIZERS
- HYDRODYNAMIC CONFIGURATIONS
- BINDERS
- ACRYLIC RESINS
- ALUMINUM
- PARTICLE SIZE
- PLASTICIZERS
- CATALYSTS
- INSTRUMENTATION
Subject Categories:
- Test Facilities, Equipment and Methods
- Solid Rocket Propellants