Publications resulting from the fundamental research on explosives program

摘要

The five-year Fundamental Research on Explosives Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory, begun in 1981, was the study of explosives behavior at a molecular level. The research team developed and tested a model of a simple explosive, liquid nitric oxide (NO), overcoming difficult problems to investigate its properties. Using recently developed high-speed technology, the authors conducted innovative experiments, such as those on high-density NO, on the molecular spectroscopy of shock-compressed materials, and on detonating liquid NO. They developed methods for calculating the thermodynamics of dense molecular systems and describing molecular-level chemistry. The team obtained theoretical and experimental equations of state for the products of detonating liquid NO and obtained the first coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy data in shock-compressed materials. The program created worldwide enthusiasm in detonation and shock wave physics and chemistry; the bibliography included in this report is the result of numerous requests for the results.