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- Title
Predicting Maximum Attainable Detonation Velocity of CHNOF and Aluminized Explosives.
- Authors
Keshavarz, Mohammad Hossein
- Abstract
This paper describes a simple method to predict the detonation velocity of pure and mixed CHNOF explosives as well as aluminized explosives at their maximum nominal density as one of the most important detonation properties. The new correlation uses the contribution of some structural parameters to apply for a wide range of ideal and non-ideal explosives. Aluminized explosives have non-ideal behavior and the ChapmanJouguet detonation velocities significantly differ from those expected from existing thermodynamic computer codes for equilibrium and steady state calculations. With the presented method, there is no need to use any assumed detonation products, heat of formation and experimental data. Detonation velocities at maximum nominal density of explosives predicted by this procedure show good agreement with respect to experimental values. They are more reliable compared to the calculated results of well-known empirical methods and computed outputs using BKWS equation of state for CHNOF and aluminized explosives.
- Publication
Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, 2012, Vol 37, Issue 4, p489
- ISSN
0721-3115
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/prep.201100097