Class/Division 1.6.: An Analysis of What are EIDS High Explosives and Which Explosive Effects are 1.6. Articles Likely to Produce

摘要

The new C/D 1.6 is now taken into consideration for both transportation (UN Recommendations and US/DOT Regulation) and storage (US/DOD Safety Standards, NATO Principles). Furthermore, the UN Test Series 7 has now about five years of existence, and is more and more used as a reference to evaluate the behavior of new less sensitive high explosives (HE) to accidental stimuli. The first aim of this paper is to relate SNPE experience in testing HE with the EIDS Tests, and consequently to help identifying what kind of HE are potential candidates for 1.6. munitions. Results are then presented concerning the behaviors at Tests 7a to 7f for melt cast HE, pressed PBX and cast PBX. Based on an analysis of some properties of EIDS, and on the results observed with articles containing EIDS and submitted to the article Tests 7g to 7k, some trends are presented to illustrate what hazards may be expected from munitions containing EIDS.