THERMAL COOK-OFF OF AN HMX BASED EXPLOSIVE: PRESSURE GAUGE EXPERIMENTS AND MODELING

摘要

Safety issues related to thermal cook-off are important for handling and storing explosive devices. Violence of event as a function of confinement is important for prediction of collateral events. There are major issues, which require an understanding of the following events: 1) transit to detonation of a pressure wave from a cook-off event, 2) sensitivity of HMX based explosives changes with thermally induced phase transitions and 3) the potential danger of neighboring explosive devices being affected by a cook-off reaction. Results of cook-off events of known size, confinement and thermal history allows for development and/or calibrating computer models for calculating events that are difficult to measure experimentally.