Accession Number:

AD0835734

Title:

THE CHEMISTRY OF DETONATIONS. V. PRESSURES OF C-H-N-O EXPLOSIVES AT VARIOUS STAGES OF THE ISENTROPIC EXPANSION,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

NAVAL ORDNANCE LAB WHITE OAK MD

Personal Author(s):

• Kamlet, Mortimer J.
• Hurwitz, Harold

Report Date:

1968-05-06

Pagination or Media Count:

22.0

Abstract:

An equation is given which permits the calculation of pressures on the K-W isentrope in the expansion of detonation products from V sub J to V 2-00 ccg. Use of the expression, in combination with equations given earlier, make it possible to accurately produce isentropes predicted through computer codes based on the K-W equation of state. The computations require no other input data than the explosives elemental composition, loading density, and an estimate of the heat of formation. Results are included for 12 C-H-N-O explosives.

Descriptors:

• (*DETONATIONS
• MATHEMATICAL PREDICTION)
• (*EXPLOSION GASES
• PRESSURE)
• CHEMICAL PROPERTIES
• EQUATIONS OF STATE
• GASES
• TNT
• PETN
• COMPUTER PROGRAMS
• RDX
• HMX
• COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
• DENSITY
• HEAT OF FORMATION
• ENTROPY
• ORGANIC NITROGEN COMPOUNDS

Subject Categories:

• Explosions

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE