Description This volume provides an overview of current research and recent advances in the area of energetic materials, focusing on explosives and
propellants. The contents and format reflect the fact that theory, experiment and computation are closely linked in this field.
The
challenge of developing energetic materials that are less sensitive to accidental stimuli continues to be of critical importance. This
volume opens with discussions of some determinants of sensitivity and its correlations with various molecular and crystal properties.
The next several chapters deal in considerable detail with different aspects and mechanisms of the initiation of detonation, and its
quantitative description. The second half of this volume focuses upon combustion. Extensive studies model ignition and combustion,
with applications to different propellants. The final chapter is an exhaustive computational treatment of the mechanism and kinetics
of combustion initiation reactions of ammonium perchlorate.
Overall, this volume illustrates the progress that has been made in the
field of energetic materials and some of the areas of current activity. It also indicates the challenges involved in characterizing
and understanding the properties and behaviour of these compounds. The work is a unique state-of-the-art treatment of the subject,
written by pre-eminent researchers in the field.
Audience
Computational chemists, Chemical Physicists, Chemical Engineers, Materials Chemists.
Contents Chapter 1. Sensitivity Correlations
Chapter 2. A Study of Chemical Micro-Mechanisms of Initiation of Organic Polynitro Compounds
Chapter
3. Dynamics of Energy Disposal in Unimolecular Reactions
Chapter 4. Initiation and Decomposition Mechanisms of Energetic Materials
Chapter 5. Initiation due to Plastic Deformation from Shock or Impact
Chapter 6. Fast Molecular Processes in Energetic Materials
Chapter
7. The Equation of State and Chemistry of Detonation Products
Chapter 8. Combustion Mechanisms and Simplified-Kinetics Modeling of
Homogeneous Energetic Solids
Chapter 9. Modeling of Nitramine Propellant Combustion and Ignition
Chapter 10. Use of Kinetic Models for
Solid State Reactions in Combustion Simulations
Chapter 11. Towards Reliable Prediction of Kinetics and Mechanisms for Elementary Processes:
Key Combustion Initiation Reactions of Ammonium Perchlorate
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