Studies of Confined Explosions of Composite Explosives and Layered Charges

In the present work, the confined explosions of cylindrical homogeneous and layered charges composed of two different types of macroscopic granular multi-component RDX-based composites were investigated. These composites were obtained by the so-called “wet slurry method”. For comparison, charges consisting of simple mixtures instead of the composites, TNT and phlegmatized RDX (RDXph) were also studied. The effect of the following parameters: the structure of the macroscopic granular composite, the type of charge (cylindrical pressed material or layered with an RDXph core), oxygen availability (air or argon atmosphere) and the aluminium particle size, on the quasi-static pressure (QSP) measured inside a 150 dm3 explosion chamber was determined. Solid post-detonation residues from inside the explosion chamber were also collected and analyzed. A combination of all of these results enabled very important conclusions about aluminium combustion and behaviour during the explosion of composite and layered charges, to be drawn.

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Opracowanie ze środków MNiSW w ramach umowy 812/P-DUN/2016 na działalność upowszechniającą naukę (zadania 2017).