12th International DETONATION SYMPOSIUM August 11 - 16th, 2002 Wyndham San Diego at Emerald Plaza 400 West Broadway San Diego, California 92101

Technical Papers of 12th International Detonation Symposium

MONDAY

0800 Introductory Remarks - Jon Maienschein

MICRODETONICS

Session Chairs: Malcolm Cook & Leanna Minier

0810 MICROENERGETIC PROCESSING AND TESTING TO DETERMINE ENERGETIC MATERIAL PROPERTIES AT THE MESOSCALE A. S. Tappan, A. M. Renlund, G. T. Long, S. H. Kravitz, K. L. Erickson, W. M. Trott, M. R. Baer Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 0830 DETONATION PROPERTIES OF EXPLOSIVES CONTAINING NANOMETRIC ALUMINUM POWDER P. Brousseau Defence Research Establishment Valcartier, Québec, Canada H. Dorsett and M. Cliff Defence Science and Technology Organization, Edinburgh, South Australia J. Anderson Mining Resource Engineering Limited Kingston, Ontario, Canada 0850 NANOMETRIC ALUMINIUM POWDER INFLUENCE ON THE DETONATION EFFICIENCY OF EXPLOSIVES A. Lefrancois, G. Baudin, C. Le Gallic French Ministry of Defense DGA/DCE/CEG, Centre d'Etudes de Gramat, Gramat, France P. Boyce, J-P. Coudoing French Ministry of Defense DGA/DCE/CTSN, Centre Techinque des Sytèmes Naval (CTSN/VN/TCO), Toulon, France

EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES

Session Chairs: Pat Baker, Jerry Forbes & L. Borne

0910 EFFECTS OF EXPLOSIVE CRYSTAL INTERNAL DEFECTS ON PROJECTILE IMPACT INITIATION L. Borne and A. Beaucamp French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis, France 0930 THE USE OF DIGITAL IMAGE CROSS-CORRELATION (DICC) TO STUDY THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF A POLYMER BONDED EXPLOSIVE (PBX) P. J. Rae, H. T. Goldrein, S. J. P. Palmer, and J. E. Field Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OHE, U.K. R. W. P. White and A. L. Lewis AWE Ltd. Aldermaston, Reading, RG7 4PR, U.K. 0950 DIGITAL SPECKLE RADIOGRAPHY OF EXPLOSIVES S. G. Grantham, W. G. Proud and J. E. Field Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, UK

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1040 PROTON RADIOGRAPHIC AND NUMERICAL MODELING OF COLLIDING, DIVERGING PBX-9502 DETONATIONS C. L. Mader, J. D. Zumbro and E. N. Ferm Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 1100 MEASUREMENTS OF TEMPORAL PROFILES OF PRESSURE IN SHOCKS PROPAGATING IN WATER G. I. Pangilinan and T. P. Russell Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, MD 1120 ENERGETIC MATERIALS AND ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY: STRUCTURE AND KINETICS B. L. Weeks, R. K. Weese, and J. M. Zaug Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 1140 KINETICS OF HMX AND PHASE TRANSITIONS: EFFECTS OF GRAIN SIZE AT ELEVATED TEMPEARTURE C. K. Saw Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA

1200 LUNCH

THERMAL HAZARDS RESPONSE

Session Chairs: David Frost & Deanne Idar

1310 CHARACTERIZATION OF THE UNCONFINED SLOW COOK-OFF RESPONSE OF NITRAMINES AND NITRAMINE COMPOSITES WITH TNT T. Krawietz, R. McKenney Jr. and R. Ortiz Air Force Research Laboratory, Eglin Air Force Base, FL 1330 QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF DAMAGE IN PBX 9501 SUBJECTED TO A LINEAR THERMAL GRADIENT B. Asay, , B. Henson, P. Peterson, J. Mang, L. Smilowitz, and P. Dickson Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 1350 A MODEL FOR HIGH EXPLOSIVE COOKOFF A. L. Nichols III, A. Anderson, R. Neely and B. Wallin Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 1410 L. Smilowitz, B. Henson, B. Asay and P. Dickson Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 1430 ENERGETIC MATERIAL RESPONSE IN A COOKOFF MODEL VALIDATION EXPERIMENT A. I. Atwood, P. O. Curran, D. T. Bui, T. L. Boggs Naval Air Warfare Center China Lake, Ridgecrest, CA K. B. Lee Agency for Defense Development, Daejeon, South Korea

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RESPONSES TO MECHANICAL DAMAGE

Session Chairs: Mel Baer & Boris Kondrikov

1520 THERMAL AND MECHANICAL DAMAGE OF PBX'S G. Scholtes, R. Bouma, P. Weterings, and A. van der Steen. TNO Prins Maurits Laboratory, The Netherlands 1540 EXPERIMENTAL AND MODELING STUDIES OF CRUSH, PUNCTURE, AND PERFORATION SCENARIOS IN THE STEVEN IMPACT TEST K. S. Vandersall, S. K. Chidester, J. W. Forbes, F. Garcia, D. W. Greenwood, L. L. Switzer, and C. M. Tarver Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 1600 A TEST METHOD AND MODEL TO DETERMINE THE THERMAL INITIATION PROPERTIES OF AN ENERGETIC MATERIAL IN A LOW PRESSURE LONG DURATION EVENT J. G. Glenn and J. Foster Air Force Research Laboratory, Eglin Air Force Base, FL M. Gunger and J. Yao General Dynamics/Ordnance and Tactical Systems, Niceville, FL A. Beliveau Applied Research Associates, FL 1620 INFLUENCE OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES ON NON-SHOCK IGNITION R. Browning and R. Scammon Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

TUESDAY

REACTION ZONE CHEMISTRY

Session Chairs: Henric Ostmark & Gerry Pangilinan

0810 PARTICLE VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS OF THE REACTION ZONE IN NITROMETHANE S. A. Sheffield, R. Engelke, R. R. Alcon, R. L. Gustavsen, D. L. Robins, D. B. Stahl, H. L. Stacy, and M. C. Whitehead Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 0830 REACTION ZONES IN DETONATIONS OF DENSE EXPLOSIVES V. F. Anisichkin, S. D. Gilev, A. P. Ershov, A. Medvedev, N. P. Satonkina and A. M. Trubachev Lavrentyv Institute of Hydrodynamics, Novosibirsk, Russia Y. V. Yanilkin Russian Federal Nuclear Center-VNIIEF, Sarov, Russia 0850 INFLUENCE OF INITIAL DENSITY ON THE REACTION ZONE FOR STEADY-STATE DETONATION OF HIGH EXPLOSIVES A. Utkin, S. Kolesnikov, S. Pershin and V. Fortov Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics RAS Chernogolovka, Russia 0910 REDUCTION OF DETAILED CHEMICAL REACTION NETWORKS FOR DETONATION SIMULATIONS P. Hung and J. E. Shepherd California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

0930 - 1200   POSTER SESSION

Session Chair: A.I. Atwood

THE USE OF EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES OF RADIATION PHYSICS TO THE INVESTIGATION ON EXPLOSIVE PROCESSES B. P. Aduev, E. D. Aluker, A. G. Krechetov and Yu A. Zakharov Kemerovo State University, Kemerovo, Russia INDEXES OF THE PROCEEDINGS FOR THE ELEVEN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIA ON DETONATION 1951-1998 B. W. Asay, W. E. Deal, J. B. Ramsay, A. M. Roach and B. E. Takala Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM JAGUAR PROCEDURES FOR DETONATION PROPERTIES OF ALUMINIZED EXPLOSIVES E. Baker, C. Capellos U.S. Army TACOM-ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ L. Stiel Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY NONDETONATIVE EXPLOSIONS AND BURNING OF COMPOSITION-B EXPLOSIVE A. Birk, P. Baker, D. E. Kooker, R. Lieb and S. Stegall U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD J. Delaney U.S. Naval Explosive Ordnance, Indian Head, MD   Session Chair: Irene Hooton ON CAVITY COLLAPSE AND SUBSEQUENT IGNITION N. Bourne Royal Military College of Science, UK A. Milne FGE, UK JOINTS, CRACKS, AND GAPS IN DETONATING EXPLOSIVES  (Updated: 2/4/2003) W. Davis and L. Hill Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM DETONATION WAVE STRUCTURE IN LIQUID HOMOGENEOUS, SOLID HETEROGENEOUS AND AGATIZED HE A. Fedorov Russian Federal Nuclear Center-VNIIEF, Sarov, Russia SHEAR DEFORMATION AND SHEAR INITIATION OF EXPLOSIVES AND PROPELLANTS B. Krzewinski, O. Blake, R. Lieb, P. Baker U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD L. VandeKieft Street, MD 21154   Session Chair: A. Kapila STUDY OF PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN DETONATION WAVE BY THE ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY METHOD  (Revised: 8/6/2002) S. Gilev and A. Trubachev Lavrentev Institute of Hydrodynamics, Novosibirsk, Russia DETONATION PERFORMANCE OF ALUMINIZED COMPOSITIONS BASED ON BTNEN M. F. Gogulya, A. Y. Dolgoborodov, M. N. Makhov, M. A. Brazhnikov and V. G. Shchetinin Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia A SURFACE BURNING MODEL FOR MELT CAST TNT R. Guirguis Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, MD DETONATION CHARACTERISTICS OF EMULSION EXPLOSIVES AS FUNCTIONS OF VOID SIZE AND VOLUME Y. Hirosaki, K. Murata and Y. Kato NOF Corporation, Aichi, Japan S. Itoh Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan SINGLE AND DOUBLE SHOCK INITIATION OF EDC37 D. A. Salisbury, P. Taylor, and R. E. Winter AWE, Aldermaston, Reading, Berkshire, UK R. L. Gustavsen, S. A. Sheffield and R. R. Alcon Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM   Session Chair: Y. Lanzerotti DETERMINATION OF JWL PARAMETERS FROM UNDERWATER EXPLOSION TEST  (Revised: 8/5/2002) S. Itoh and H. Hamashima Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan K. Murata and Y. Kato NOF Corporation, Aichi, Japan DETONATION AND SENSITIVITY PROPERTIES OF FOX-7 AND FORMULATIONS CONTAINING FOX-7  (Revised: 8/5/2002) S. Karlsson, H. Östmark, C. Eldsäter, T. Carlsson , H. Bergman, S.Wallin, and A.Pettersson Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI, Sweden HETEROGENEOUS CHAIN MECHANISM OF LEAD AZIDE INITIATION BY A LASER PULSE IN THE TRANSPARENCE REGION OF A CRYSTAL  (Revised: 8/6/2002) A. Khaneft Kemerovo State University, Kemerovo, Russia NUMERICAL MODELING OF NONIDEAL DETONATIONS IN AMMONIUM NITRATE/ALUMINIUM MIXTURES AND THEIR BLAST EFFECT B. Khasainov and B. Ermolaev Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia H-N. Presles and P. Vidal Laboratoire de Combustion et de Detonique, UPR CNRS, France   Session Chair: Tom Russell THERMAL DECOMPOSITION OF NITROCOMPOUNDS IN A BROAD RANGE OF TEMPERATURES AND PRESSURES B. N. Kondrikov and E. I. Alyoshkina Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology, Moscow 9, Miusskaya Square, Moscow 125047, Russia MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF ENERGETIC MATERIALS DURING HIGH ACCELERATION Y. Lanzerotti U.S. Army TACOM ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ J. Sharma Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division, West Bethesda, MD EFFECT OF POLYMORPH TRANSFORMATION OF ÍÌÕ AFTER THERMAL TREATMENT ON ITS SENSITIVITY TO IMPACT FRICTION V. N. Lashkov, O. L. Ignatov, V. N. Lobanov, A. V. Strikanov, A. N. Shestakov Russian Federal Nuclear Center-VNIIEF, Sarov, Russia FRACTURE IN PBX 9501 AT LOW RATES C. Liu and R. Browning Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM   Session Chair: Harold Sandusky THERMAL PROPERTIES OF CRYSTALS AND POLYMERS AT STATIC HIGH PRESSURES J. R. Carney, H. D. Ladouceur, T. P. Russell, and G. I. Pangilinan Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, MD SIMULATION OF AQUARIUM TESTS FOR PBXW-115(AUST) J. P. Lu and H. Dorsett Defence Science and Technology Organization, Edinburgh, South Australia David L. Kennedy Orica Explosives, Kurri Kurri, Australia SHOCK INITIATION OF EXPLOSIVES BY MICRO SLAPPER R. Mendes, J. Campos, I. Plaksin and J. Ribeiro Laboratory of Energetics and Detonics, Mechanical Eng. Dept., Fac. of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra 3030-201 Coimbra, Portugal MEASUREMENTS OF UNDERWATER EXPLOSION PERFORMANCES BY PRESSURE GAUGE USING FLUOROPOLYMER K. Murata, K. Takahashi and Y. Kato NOF Corporation, Aichi, Japan   Session Chair: Peter Taylor ISENTROPIC COMPRESSION OF HIGH EXPLOSIVES WITH THE Z ACCELERATOR  (Revised: 8/5/2002) D. B. Reisman, J. W. Forbes, C. M. Tarver, and F. Garcia Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA D. B. Hayes Tijeras, NM M. D. Furnish Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM J. J. Dick Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM THE DIVERGING SPHERE AND THE RIB IN PROMPT DETONATION  (Revised: 8/7/2002) P. C. Souers, E. McGuire, R. Garza, F. Roeske and P. Vitello Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA MECHANICAL PROPERTIES DETERMINATION BY REAL-TIME ULTRASONIC CHARACTERIZATION OF THERMALLY DAMAGED ENERGETIC MATERIALS A. S. Tappan, A. M. Renlund, J. C. Stachowiak, J. C. Miller and M. S. Oliver Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM QUASI-STATIC AND DYNAMIC MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF NEW AND VIRTUALLY-AGED PBX 9501 COMPOSITES AS A FUNCTION OF TEMPERATURE AND STRAIN RATE D. Thompson, D. Idar, G. Gray, W. Blumenthal, C. Cady, E. Roemer, W. Wright and P. Peterson Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM   Session Chair: W. Wilson THE EFFECT OF AL2O3 PHASE TRANSITIONS ON DETONATION PROPERTIES OF ALUMINIZED EXPLOSIVES S. B. Victorov Moscow State Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia STABILITY AFFECTS OF ARTIFICIAL VISCOSITY IN DETONATION MODELING P. Vitello and P. C. Souers Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, CA THE SCALED THERMAL EXPLOSION EXPERIMENT J. Wardell and J. Maienschein Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA THE LEVEL SET METHOD APPLIED TO THREE-DIMENSIONAL DETONATION WAVE PROPAGATION S. Wen, C. Sun, F. Zhao, and J. Chen Laboratory for Shock Wave and Detonation Physics Research, Mianyang, Sichuan LOW SPEED IMPACT OF PRISTINE AND AGED SOLID HIGH EXPLOSIVE S. Wortley and A. Jones AWE Aldermaston, UK M. Cartwright and J. Allum Royal Military College of Science, Cranfield University, Shrivenham, Wiltshire, UK

NON-IDEAL EXPLOSIVE PERFORMANCE

Session Chairs: John Anderson, Erik Matheson & Phil Miller

1330 DSD FRONT MODELS: NONIDEAL EXPLOSIVE DETONATION IN ANFO J. Bdzil, T. Aslam, R. Catanach and L. Hill Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM M. Short University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 1350 A NEW CONCEPT FOR THE MODELING OF DETONATION WAVES IN MULTIPHASE MIXTURES A. Chinnayya, E. Daniel and R. Saurel IUSTI, Marseilles, France G. Baudin and C. Le Gallic French Ministry of Defense DGA/DCE/CEG/ Centre d'Etudes de Gramat, Gramat, France 1410 SHOCK WAVE PRESSURE IN FREE WATER AS A FUNCTION OF EXPLOSIVE COMPOSITION G. W. Lawrence Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, MD 1430 TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS COMPARISON OF THE ALUMINIZED EMULION EXPLOSIVES DETONATION FRONT AND PRODUCTS EXPANSION A. Lefrancois, J. Y. Grouffal and P. Bouinot French Ministry of Defense DGA/DCE/CEG/ Centre d'Etudes de Gramat, Gramat, France S. Mencacci Nitrochimie-Groupe, Saint-Martin de Crau, France 1450 SMALL-SCALE SAFETY AND PERFORMANCE CHARACTERIZATION OF NEW PLASTIC BONDED EXPLOSIVES CONTAINING LLM-105  (Updated by author: 7/25/2002) T. Tran, P. Pagoria, M. Hoffman, B. Cunningham, R. Simpson, R. S. Lee, and J. Cutting Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA

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COMPOSITE EXPLOSIVE PERFORMANCE

Session Chairs: John Anderson, Erik Matheson & Phil Miller

1540 THE ROLE OF DAMAGE MODE IN DELAYED DETONATION OF COMPOSITE ENERGETIC MATERIALS E. R. Matheson and J.T. Rosenberg Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Sunnyvale, CA 1600 EFFECT OF Al/AlH3 AND Mg/MgH2 COMPONENTS ON DETONATION PARAMETERS OF MIXED EXPLOSIVES A. A. Selezenev, V. N. Lashkov, V. N. Lobanov, O. L. Ignatov, A. Yu. Aleinikov, A. V. Strikanov, V. N. Trusov Russian Federal Nuclear Center-VNIIEF, Sarov, Russia N. A. Imkhovik MGTU, Moscow, Russia 1620 STEADY-STATE MODEL OF HETEROGENEOUS DETONATION WITH REACTIVE METALLIC PARTICLES A. Gonor Applied Science & Engineering Consulting, Toronto, Canada I. Hooton Defence Research Establishment Suffield, Medicine Hat, AB Canada S. Narayan Adsorption Technology Consultant, Kanata, ON Canada

WEDNESDAY   A

NUMERICAL MODELS FOR IGNITION AND DETONATION

Session Chairs: Serge Lecume & Art Ratzel

0810 APPLICATION OF A MULTIPHASE MIXTURE THEORY WITH COUPLED DAMAGE AND REACTION TO ENERGETIC MATERIAL RESPONSE  (Revised: 8/12/2002) R. Schmitt, P. L. Taylor and G. Hertel Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 0830 NUMERICAL AND THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS ON DETONATION-INERT CONFINEMENT INTERACTIONS T. Aslam and J. Bdzil Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 0850 A STATISTICAL HOT SPOT REACTIVE FLOW MODEL FOR SHOCK INITIATION AND DETONATION OF SOLID HIGH EXPLOSIVES A. Nichols and C. Tarver Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 0910 DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF WEAK SHOCKS IN GRANULAR MATERIAL S. G. Bardenhagen Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM K. M. Roessig Air Force Research Laboratory, Eglin Air Force Base, FL O. Byutner, J. E. Guilkey, D. Bedrov and G. D. Smith University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 0930 ISOCHORIC BURN, AN INTERNALLY CONSISTENT METHOD FOR THE REACTANT TO PRODUCT TRANSFORMATION IN REACTIVE FLOW  (Revised: 8/15/2002) J. E. Reaugh and E. L. Lee Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 0950 SIMULATION STUDY OF THE ELASTIC MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF HMX T. Sewell Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM D. Bedrov and G. Smith University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

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THERMAL DECOMPOSITION AND AGING

Session Chair: Thomas Brill & Gert Scholtes

1040 THERMAL DECOMPOSITION OF HMX: MORPHOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL CHANGES INDUCED AT SLOW DECOMPOSITION RATES R. Behrens Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 1100 SHOCK INITIATION OF NEW AND AGED PBX 9501 R. L. Gustavsen, S. A. Sheffield, R. R. Alcon and L. G. Hill Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 1120 THERMAL DECOMPOSITION OF PETN AND HMX OVER A WIDE TEMPERATURE RANGE V. German, S. Grebennikova, L. Kornilova, S. Lobanova and L. Fomicheva Russian Federal Nuclear Center-VNIIEF, Sarov, Russia 1140 EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF THE THERMAL DECOMPOSITION OF URONIUM NITRATE (UREA NITRATE) R. Hiyoshi National Research Institute of Police Science T. Brill University of Delaware, Newark, DE Y. Kohno, O. Takahashi, and K. Saito Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan 1200 STUDY INTO THE INFLUENCE OF TEMPERATURE AND TIME FACTORS (160°C, 1-7 DAYS) ON HMX STRUCTURE T.Y. Kirsanova, V. N. German, A. M. Zlobin, T. G. Kirianova, Y. S. Kozlova, V. N. Kolesnikova, S. P. Lobanova, Y. P. Orlikov, A. M. Podurets, A. K. Fisenko, L. V. Fomicheva Russian Federal Nuclear Center-VNIIEF, Sarov, Russia 1220 CHANGES IN THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF ENERGETIC MATERIALS WITH AGING D. A. Wiegand U.S. Army TACOM ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ

WEDNESDAY   B

EQUATIONS OF STATE

Session Chairs: Scott Stewart & M. Yoshida

0830 EXP6: A NEW EQUATION OF STATE LIBRARY FOR HIGH PRESSURE THERMOCHEMISTRY L. Fried, W. M. Howard and P. C. Souers Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 0850 TRANSPORT PROPERTIES OF FLUID MIXTURES AT HIGH PRESSURES AND TEMPERATURES. APPLICATION TO THE DETONATION PRODUCTS OF HMX S. Bastea Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 0910 CMEX PROJECT: DEVELOPMENT OF A CONSTITUTIVE MODEL FOR CAST PLASTIC BONDED EXPLOSIVES M. Quidot, P. Racimore and P. Chabin SNPE Propulsion, France 0930 DIRECT SIMULATION OF DETONATION PRODUCTS EQUATION OF STATE BY A COMPOSITE MONTE CARLO METHOD M. S. Shaw Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 0950 THERMODYNAMIC REPRESENTATIONS FOR SOLID PRODUCTS IN IDEAL DETONATION PREDICTIONS M. Braithwaite Cranfield University, Swindon UK N. Allan University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

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EQUATIONS OF STATE AND RELATED EXPERIMENTS

Session Chairs: Peter Haskins & C.L. Mader

1040 COMPRESSIVE PROPERTIES OF PBXN-110 AND ITS HTPB -BASED BINDER AS A FUNCTION OF TEMPERATURE AND STRAIN RATE W. Blumenthal, D. Thompson, C. Cady, G. T. Gray III and D. Idar Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 1100 EQUATION OF STATE AND STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN DIAMINODINITROETHYLENE FROM EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES AND AB-INITIO QUANTUM CALCULATIONS S. M. Peiris, C. P. Wong, M. M. Kukla and F. J. Zerilli Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, MD 1120 EQUATION OF STATE FOR MODELING THE DETONATION REACTION ZONE IN EXPLOSIVES  (Updated: 11/6/2002) D. S. Stewart University of Illinois, Urbana, IL W. C. Davis Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 1140 A WBL-CONSISTENT JWL EQUATION OF STATE FOR THE HMX-BASED EXPLOSIVE EDC37 FROM CYLINDER TESTS P. W. Merchant, S. J. White and A. M. Collyer AWE, Aldermaston, Berkshire, UK 1200 REACTIVE FLOW MODELING OF THE INTERACTION OF TATB DETONATION WAVES WITH INERT MATERIALS  (Revised: 8/5/2002) C. Tarver and E. McGuire Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 1220 DETONATION STUDY OF ENERGETIC MICRO-SAMPLES I. Plaksin, J. Campos, P.Simões, A. Portugal, J. Ribeiro, R. Mendes, J. Gois, Laboratory of Energetics and Detonics, Mechanical Eng. Department, Fac. of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, 3030 Coimbra, Portugal

THURSDAY   A

DETONATION FAILURE & STABILITY

Session Chairs: Ron Lee & Graeme Leiper

0830 PROPAGATION OF DETONATION WAVES IN RADIALLY GRADED EXPLOSIVES  (Updated: 8/9/2002) R. Guirguis, A. Landsberg, H. Sandusky, and A. Wardlaw Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, MD 0850 ON THE DETONATION FAILURE DIAMETER OF THE DINA/ACETONITRIL SOLUTION  (Revised: 7/18/2002) A. N. Dremin, A. V. Anan'in, V. A. Garanin, L. T. Eremenko, S. A. Koldunov, Y. M. Litvinov and D. A. Nesterenko Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Chernogolovka, Russia 0910 PROPAGATION OF AXIALLY SYMMETRIC DETONATION WAVES R. Druce, F. Roeske, P. C. Souers, C. Tarver, C. Chow, R. Lee, E. McGuire, G. Overturf, P. Vitello Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 0930 CHARACTERIZATION OF DETONATION WAVE PROPAGATION IN LX-17 NEAR THE CRITICAL DIAMETER  (Updated by author: 7/25/2002) T. Tran, C. Tarver, J. Maienschein, P. Lewis, M. Moss, R. Lee and F. Roeske Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 0950 CRITICAL CONDITIONS FOR IGNITION OF METAL PARTICLES IN A CONDENSED EXPLOSIVE D. Frost McGill University, Montreal, Canada F. Zhang and S. Murray Defence Research Establishment Suffield, Alberta, Canada S. McCahan University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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DETONATION THEORY

Session Chairs: A.N. Dremin & P.A. Urtiew

1040 MOLECULAR LEVEL STUDIES OF POLY-NITROGEN EXPLOSIVES  (Revised: 7/17/2002) P. J. Haskins, J. Fellows, and M. D. Cook QinetiQ, Fort Halstead, UK A. Wood RG Solutions Ltd, Kent, UK 1100 MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS OF DETONATION IN DEFECTIVE EXPLOSIVE CRYSTALS  (Revised: 7/19/2002) T. Germann, B. Holian and P. Lomdahl Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM A. J. Heim and N. Grønbech-Jensen University of California-Davis, Davis, CA, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA J. B. Maillet CEA/DM-Ile de France, France 1120 THERMODYNAMIC THEORY OF NON-IDEAL DETONATION AND FAILURE W. Byers Brown Mass Action Research Consultancy & University of Manchester, Manchester, UK 1140 AB INITIO MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS OF MULTIMOLECULAR COLLISIONS OF NITROMETHANE AND COMPRESSED LIQUID NITROMETHANE  (Revised: 7/19/2002) S. S. Decker and T. K. Woo University of Western Ontario, London, Canada D. Wei Centre de Recherche en Calcul Appliqué, Montréal, Canada F. Zhang Defence Research Establishment Suffield, Medicine Hat, Canada

1200 LUNCH

DETONATION PHYSICS EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES

Session Chair: Eric Lundstrom & Ron Winter

1330 MOLECULAR AND MICROSCOPIC STRUCTURAL EFFECTS IN THE DETONATION OF FLUID EXPLOSIVES J. Cooper Cranfield University, Swindon, UK G. A. Leiper Ardfeidh Associates, Ard Feidh, UK G. W. Neilson and H. H. Wills University of Bristol, Bristol, UK 1350 TEMPERATURE PROFILE CALCULATION FROM EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY MEASUREMENTS IN NITROMETHANE SUBMITTED TO PLATE IMPACTS  (Revised: 8/6/2002) V. Bouyer, G. Baudin and C. Le Gallic French Ministry of Defense DGA/DCE/CEG/ Centre d'Etudes de Gramat, Gramat, France I. Darbord and P. Hervé LEEE, Paris X University, Ville d'Avray, France 1410 NEW INNOVATIONS IN SHOCK DIAGNOSTICS & ANALYSIS USING HIGH-SPEED MULTI-POINT VELOCIMETRY (VISAR) K. Fleming, T. Broyles, V. Loyola and G. Clark Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 1430 ON THE BACKWARD SUPERDETONATION IN HOMOGENEOUS EXPLOSIVES O. Heuzé and F. Chaissé CEA/DIF, France 1450 MACRO- AND MICROSTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF TATB SAMPLES SUBMITTED TO A COMBINED THERMAL / MECHANICAL AGGRESSION C. Le Gallic, M. Labrunie, F. Davoine, P. Bouinot, A. Lefrançois French Ministry of Defense DGA/DCE/CEG/ Centre d'Etudes de Gramat, Gramat, France R. Belmas CEA/Le Ripault, Monts, France

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NEW EXPLOSIVE COMPOUNDS

Session Chairs: Gerry Pangilinan & Al Stern

1540 DETONATION PROPERTIES AND REACTION RATE MODELING OF MELT CAST AMMONIUM DINITRAMIDE (ADN) H. Östmark, A. Helte, S. Karlsson, A. Hahma and H. Edvinsson Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI, Sweden 1600 SHOCK INITIATION AND DETONABILITY OF ISOPROPYL NITRATE F. Zhang and S. Murray Defence R&D Canada - Suffield, Medicine Hat, Alberta, T1A 8K6, Canada A. Yoshinaka G-Zero, Medicine Hat, Alberta, T1A 1M1 Canada A. Higgins McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2K6, Canada

THURSDAY   B

MODELS FOR SAFETY-RELATED RESPONSES

Session Chairs: Chengwei Sun & Craig Tarver

0810 PROGRESS IN STATISTICAL CRACK MECHANICS: AN APPROACH TO INITIATION J. K. Dienes, J. Middleditch, J. D. Kershner, Q. Zuo and A. Starobin Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 0830 A BURN MODEL BASED ON HEATING DUE TO SHEAR FLOW: PROOF OF PRINCIPLE CALCULATIONS  (Revised: 7/25/2002) F. J. Zerilli, R. H. Guirguis, and C. S. Coffey Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, ND 0850 A COMBINED EXPERIMENTAL/NUMERICAL METHODOLOGY TO ASSESS THE SENSITIVITY OF PBX's  (Revised: 7/25/2002) P. Chabin, P. Brunet, and S. Lecume SNPE Propulsion, France 0910 EFFECT OF THERMAL NONHOMOGENEITY ON EXPLOSION OR DETONATION IN AN ANNULAR COOKOFF  (Revised: 8/7/2002) D. Schwendeman and A. Kapila Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 0930 COOK-OFF EXPERIMENTS FOR MODEL VALIDATION AT SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES  (Revised: 7/30/2002) M. J. Kaneshige, A. M. Renlund, R. G. Schmitt and W. W. Erikson Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 0950 A THRESHOLD CRITERION FOR IMPACT IGNITION  (Revised: 7/29/2002) Y. Partom RAFAEL, Haifa, Israel

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HAZARD RESPONSE EXPERIMENTS & ANALYSIS

Session Chairs: Joseph Foster & Yehuda Partom

1040 PRESSURE WAVE MEASUREMENTS DURING THERMAL EXPLOSION OF HMX-BASED HIGH EXPLOSIVES  (Revised: 7/31/2002) J. W. Forbes, F. Garcia, C. M. Tarver, P. A. Urtiew, D. W. Greenwood and K. S. Vandersall Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 1100 UNDERSTANDING AND PREDICTING THE THERMAL EXPLOSION VIOLENCE OF HMX-BASED AND RDX-BASED EXPLOSIVES - EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS OF MATERIAL PROPERTIES AND REACTION VIOLENCE J. Maienschein, J. Wardell, R. Weese B. Cunningham, and Tri D. Tran Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 1120 STRUCTURAL AND CHEMICAL CHANGES IN PBX INDUCED BY RAPID SHEAR FOLLOWED BY COMPRESSION  (Revised: 8/5/2002) S. Lecume and P. Chabin SNPE Propulsion, France A. Lefrancois French Ministry of Defense DGA/DCE/CEG/ Centre d'Etudes de Gramat, Gramat, France 1140 VALIDATION EXPERIMENTS FOR MODELING SLOW COOK-OFF  (Revised: 8/7/2002) H. W. Sandusky and G. P. Chambers Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, MD W. W. Erikson and R. G. Schmitt Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1200 DIRECT OBSERVATION OF COOK-OFF EVENTS USING A NOVEL GLASS WINDOWED VEHICLE AND PIPE BOMBS  (Revised: 8/7/2002) M. D. Cook, R. I. Briggs, C. Stennett, P. J. Haskins, and J. Fellows QinetiQ, MoD Fort Halstead, Sevenoaks, Kent TN14 7BP, UK

1220 LUNCH

NUMERICAL MODELS FOR DETONATION PHYSICS

Session Chairs: Patrick Brousseau & Ron Fedkiw

1330 CUMULATIVE DAMAGE HOTSPOT MODEL FOR USE WITH ARRHENIUS BASED IGNITION AND GROWTH MODEL M. D. Cook, P. J. Haskins, C. Stennett, and A. D. Wood QinetiQ, Fort Halstead, UK 1350 A FULLY CONSERVATIVE GHOST FLUID METHOD & STIFF DETONATION WAVES D. Nguyen, F. Gibou, and R. Fedkiw Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 1410 THE BURNING RATE OF ALUMINIUM PARTICLES IN NITROMETHANE IN CYLINDER TESTS A. M. Milne, A. W. Longbottom, and D. J. Evans Fluid Gravity Engineering Ltd, St. Andrews P. J. Haskins, M. D. Cook and R. I. Briggs QinetiQ, Fort Halstead, UK 1430 SIMULATION OF DETONATION PROBLEMS WITH THE MLS GRID-FREE METHODOLOGY J. Yao Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA M. E. Gunger and D. A. Matuska General Dynamics OTS, Niceville, FL 1450 MODELING OF DOUBLE SHOCK INITIATION OF TATB-BASED EXPLOSIVES Y. A. Aminov, N.S. Es’kov and Y. R. Nikitenko Russian Federal Nuclear Center-VNIITF, Snezhinsk, Russia

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NUMERICAL MODELS

Session Chair: Patrick Brousseau & Ron Fedkiw

1540 LINKS BETWEEN DETONATION WAVE PROPAGATION AND REACTIVE FLOW MODELS D. Swift Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM S. White AWE, Aldermaston, Berkshire, UK 1600 TEMPERATURE-BASED REACTIVE FLOW MODEL FOR ANFO R. Mulford and D. Swift Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM M. Braithwaite Cranfield University, Swindon, UK

FRIDAY   A

INITIATION MODELING - MICROMECHANICS

Session Chairs: I. Plaksin & A.M. Renlund

0810 THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MESOSCALE STUDIES OF IMPACT-LOADED GRANULAR EXPLOSIVE AND SIMULANT MATERIALS M. R. Baer and W. M. Trott Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 0830 EXPLOITATION OF SOME MICRO-MECHANICAL CONCEPTS TO DEVELOP AN ENGINEERING MODEL OF SHOCK INITIATION P. Howe Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM David Benson University of California, San Diego, CA 0850 MODELING REACTIVE COMPACTION OF HMX K. Gonthier Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 0910 MESOSCALE MODELLING OF REACTION IN HMX-BASED EXPLOSIVES D. Swift and R. Mulford Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM R. Winter, P. Taylor , D. Salisbury, and E. J. Harris AWE Aldermaston, UK 0930 ON THE CHARACTERIZATION AND MECHANISMS OF SHOCK INITIATION IN HETEROGENEOUS EXPLOSIVES  (Revised: 11/22/2002) L. Hill and R. Gustavsen Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

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INITIATION MODELING - CHEMISTRY

Session Chairs: M. Braithwaite & Al Stern

1020 EVIDENCE FOR THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM IN THE DETONATION OF HMX B. F. Henson, L. Smilowitz, B. W. Asay, P. M. Dickson, and P. M. Howe Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 1040 INITIATION OF DETONATION IN LIQUID EXPLOSIVES BY A REFLECTED SHOCK WAVE A. Higgins, F. X Jetté and A. Yoshinaka McGill University, Montreal, Canada F. Zhang Defence Research Establishment Suffield, Alberta, Canada 1100 MODELING DETONATION PROPAGATION AND FAILURE USING EXPLOSIVE INITIATION MODELS IN A CONVENTIONAL HYDROCODE J. Starkenberg U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 1120 INVESTIGATION INTO RESEARCH DATA ON HE SENSITIVITY TO IMPACT V. Vasipenko, V. N. German, D. A. Kashcheev and L. V. Fomicheva Russian Federal Nuclear Center-VNIIEF, Sarov, Russia

1140 Closing Remarks - James Short

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