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PROPELLANTS EXPLOSIVES PYROTECHNICS
Volume 41, Issue 3, Pages 426-451Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/prep.201500351
Keywords
Energetic materials; Sensitivities; Performance; Review
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- Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic [TA02010454]
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This paper provides an overview of the main developments over the past nine years in the study of the sensitivity of energetic materials (EM) to impact, shock, friction, electric spark, laser beams, and heat. Attention is also paid to performance and to its calculation methods. Summaries are provided of the relationships between sensitivity and performance, the best representations for the calculation methods of performance being the volume heat of explosion or the product of crystal density and the square of detonation velocity. On the basis of current knowledge, it is possible to state that a single universal relationship between molecular structure and initiation reactivity does not yet exist. It is confirmed that increasing the explosive strength is usually accompanied by an increase in the sensitivity. In the case of nitramines this rule is totally valid for friction sensitivity, but for impact sensitivity there are exceptions to the rule, and with 1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazepane, 1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazinane, beta-1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetrazocane, and the alpha-, beta- and epsilon-polymorphs of 2,4,6,8,10,12-hexanitro-2,4,6,8,10,12-hexaazaisowurtzitane the relationship works in the opposite direction. With respect to the QSPR approach there might be reasonably good predictions but it provides little insight into the physics and chemistry involved in the process of initiation.
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