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- Title
Insensitive high explosives: IV. Nitroguanidine e Initiation & detonation.
- Authors
Koch, Ernst-Christian
- Abstract
This paper reviews the detonative properties of low bulk density (LBD), high bulk density (HBD) Nitroguanidine (NGu)(1), CAS-No: [556-88-7] and 82 explosive formulations based on NGu reported in the public domain. To rank the performance of those formulations they are compared with 15 reference compositions containing both standard high explosives such as octogen (HMX)(2), hexogen (RDX)(3), pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN)(4), 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT)(5) as well as insensitive high explosives such as 3-nitro-1,2,4-triazolone (NTO)(6), 1,3,5-triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene (TATB)(7), 1,1-diamino-2,2-dinitroethylene (FOX-7)(8) and N-Guanylurea dinitramide (FOX 12)(9). NGu based formulations are superior to those based on FOX-12 or TATB and are a close match with FOX-7 based explosives, the latter just having higher Gurney Energies (~10%) and slightly higher detonation pressure (þ2%). NGu based explosives even reach up to 78% of the detonation pressure, 82% Gurney energy and up to 95% of detonation velocity of HMX. LBD-NGu dissolves in many melt cast eutectics forming dense charges thereby eliminating the need for costly High Bulk Density NGu. Nitroguanidine based formulations are at the rock bottom of sensitiveness among all the above-mentioned explosives which contributes to the safety of these formulations. The review gives 132 references to the public domain. For a review on the synthesis spectroscopy and sensitiveness of Nitroguanidine see Ref. [1].
- Subjects
EXPLOSIVES; NITROGUANIDINE; DETONATION waves; MILITARY weapons; SHOCK waves
- Publication
Defence Technology, 2019, Vol 15, Issue 4, p467
- ISSN
2096-3459
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1016/j.dt.2019.05.009