Symposium GG—Decomposition, Combustion, and Detonation Chemisty of Energetic Materials
Chairs
Thomas P. Russell, Naval Research Laboratory
Thomas B. Brill, University of Delaware
Robert B. Wardle, Thiokol Corporation
William C. Tao, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Symposium Support
- Office of Naval Research
- Naval Research Laboratory
- Army Research Office
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
*Invited Paper
SESSION GG1: SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION (I&II)
Chairs: Thomas B. Brill and Jeff Battaro
Monday Morning, November 27
St. George C/D (W)
8:30 A.M. *GG1.1
RESEARCH ON NEW ENERGETIC MATERIALS, Richard S. Miller, Office of Naval
Research, Department of Chemistry, Arlington, VA.
9:00 A.M. *GG1.2
THE CONSTRUCTION OF STABLE HIGH NITROGEN SYSTEMS, Vladimir A. Tartakovsky, N.D.
Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow,
Russia.
9:30 A.M. GG1.3
POLYNITROALKANES, NITROAZOLES AND OXIMES IN ELECTROORGANIC SYNTHESIS, Murat
Niyazymbetov, Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia and
University of Delaware, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Newark,
DE.
9:45 A.M. GG1.4
IMPROVED SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND INITIAL EXPLOSIVE FORMULATIONS OF TEX
(DINITROTETRAOXADIAZALSOWURTZITANE), Robert Wardle, Thomas Highsmith and Paul
Braithwaite, Thiokol Corporation, Brigham City, UT.
10:00 A.M. GG1.5
AMINONITROHETEROCYCLIC N-OXIDES -- A NEW CLASS OF INSENSITIVE ENERGETIC
MATERIALS, Richard A. Hollins, Lawrence H. Merwin, Robin A. Nissan, William S.
Wilson, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China Lake, CA; and Richard
D. Gilardi, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC.
10:15 A.M. BREAK
10:45 A.M. GG1.6
SYNTHESIS OF HIGH DENSITY INSENSITIVE ENERGETIC TETRAAZAPENTALENE DERIVATIVES,
Mark L. Trudell, Ganesan Subramanian and Joseph H. Boyer, University of New
Orleans, Department of Chemistry, New Orleans, LA.
11:00 A.M. GG1.7
ANTA AND ITS OXIDATION PRODUCT, Kien-Yin Lee, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
HE Science and Technology, Los Alamos, NM; Richard Gilardi, Naval Research
Laboratory, Laboratory for the Structure of Matter, Washington, DC; and James
R. Stine, Los Alamos National Laboratory, HE Science and Technology, Los
Alamos, NM.
11:15 A.M. GG1.8
CHARGE DENSITIES AND ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIALS FOR ENERGETIC MATERIALS, A. Alan
Pinkerton and Anthony Martin, University of Toledo, Department of Chemistry,
Toledo, OH.
11:30 A.M. GG1.9
COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES RELATED TO THE DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF ENERGETIC
MATERIALS, Peter Politzer, University of New Orleans, Department of Chemistry,
New Orleans, LA.
11:45 A.M. GG1.10
MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS OF CRYSTALLINE TATB, Thomas D. Sewell, Los Alamos
National Laboratory, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos, NM.
SESSION GG1: SYNTHESIS & CHARACTERIZATION III
Chairs: Philip Howe and Robert McKenney
Monday Afternoon, November 27
St. George C/D (W)
1:30 P.M. GG1.11
AFM STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF HYDROGEN BONDS OF THE DISSOLUTION OF MOLECULAR
CRYSTALS, Jennifer A. Swift and J. Michael McBride, Yale University, Department
of Chemistry, New Haven, CT.
1:45 P.M. GG1.12
CRYSTAL GROWTH OF ENERGETIC MATERIALS DURING HIGH ACCELERATION, M.Y.D.
Lanzerotti, J. Autera, U.S. Army ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ; L. Borne,
French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis (ISL), Saint Louis, France; and
J. Sharma, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Silver Spring, MD.
2:00 P.M. GG1.13
PHASE RELATIONSHIPS INVOLVING RDX AND COMMON SOLID PROPELLANT BINDERS, Eric
Boyer, Paul W. Brown and Kenneth K. Kuo, Pennsylvania State University,
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University Park, PA.
2:15 P.M. GG1.14
IMPACT DESENSITIZATION OF 2,4-DINITROIMIDAZOLE, M. Frances Foltz, University of
California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA.
2:30 P.M. GG1.15
OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF RDX AND HMX, R.A. Isbell and M.Q. Brewster, University of
Illinois, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Urbana, IL.
2:45 P.M. GG1.16
OVERVIEW ON ENERGETIC POLYMERS, Jacques Boileau, Paris, France.
3:00 P.M. BREAK
SESSION GG2: CONDENSED PHASE DECOMPOSITION
Chairs: Philip Howe and Robert McKenney
Monday Afternoon, November 27
St. George C/D (W)
3:30 P.M. GG2.1
KINETIC ANALYSIS OF SOLID-STATE REACTIONS: AN IMPROVED ANALYSIS METHOD, David
P. Smith and M. Munawar Chaudhri, University of Cambridge, Cavendish
Laboratory, Department of Physics, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
3:45 P.M. GG2.2
SOLID-PHASE THERMAL DECOMPOSITION OF 2,4-DINITROIMIDAZOLE (2,4-DNI), Leanna
Minier, Richard Behrens, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA; and
Suryanarayana Bulusu, US Army ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ.
4:00 P.M. GG2.3
THERMAL DECOMPOSITION OF HMX: LOW TEMPERATURE REACTION KINETICS AND THEIR USE
FOR ASSESSING RESPONSE IN ABNORMAL THERMAL ENVIRONMENTS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR
LONG-TERM AGING, Richard Behrens, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA;
and Surya Bulusus, U.S. Army, ARDEC, Dover, NJ.
4:15 P.M. GG2.4
FREE RADICALS FROM PHOTOLYSIS OF S-NITRO-1,2,4-TRIAZOL-5-ONE (NTO) STUDIED BY
EPR AND SPIN TRAPPING, M. Dale Pace, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington,
DC.
4:30 P.M. GG2.5
NTO DECOMPOSITION STUDIES, Jimmie C. Oxley, James L. Smith, University of Rhode
Island, Department of Chemistry, West Kingston, RI; ZunLiang Zhou, Kirk Yeager,
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Department of Chemistry, NM; and
Robert McKenney, Eglin AFB, FL.
4:45 P.M. GG2.6
STUDIES OF PYROLYSIS PRODUCTS OF EXPLOSIVES IN SOILS USING INFRARED TUNABLE
DIODE LASER DETECTION, J. Wormhoudt, J.H. Shorter and C.E. Kolb, Aerodyne
Research, Inc. Center for Chemical and Environmental Physics, Billerica, MA.
SESSION GG3: COMBUSTION MECHANISM (I & II)
Chairs: Kenneth Kuo and Carl Melius
Tuesday Morning, November 28
St. George C/D (W)
9:00 A.M. *GG3.1
EFFECT OF STRUCTURE OF ENERGETIC MATERIALS ON BURNING RATE, A.E. Fogelzang,
V.P. Sinditskii, V.Y. Egorshev and V.V. Serushkin, Mendeleev University of
Chemical Technology, Chemical Engineering, Moscow, Russia.
9:30 A.M. GG3.2
TOWARD QUANTITATIVE THERMODYNAMICS AND KINETICS OF PYROLYSIS OF BULK MATERIALS
AT HIGH TERMPERATURE AND PRESSURE, Graylon K. Williams and Thomas B. Brill,
University of Delaware, Department of Chemistry, Newark, DE.
9:45 A.M. GG3.3
TEMPERATURE GLOBAL DECOMPOSITION KINETICS OF EXPLOSIVES, Douglas Olson and
Marvin Banks, New Mexico Tech, Research Center for Energetic Materials,
Socorro, NM.
10:00 A.M. BREAK
10:30 A.M. *GG3.4
THREE-PHASE COMBUSTION MODELLING: FROZEN OZONE, A PROTOTYPE SYSTEM, Martin S.
Miller, Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.
11:00 A.M. GG3.5
RATE CONSTANT DETERMINATIONS FOR HBO + F CHANNELS FROM AB INITIO REACTION PATH
CALCULATIONS, Maribel R. Soto, Naval Research Laboratory, Laboratory for
Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics, Washington, DC.
11:15 A.M. GG3.6
HIGH PRESSURE IGNITION OF BORON IN REDUCED OXYGEN ATMOSPHERES, Robert O.
Foelsche, Martin J. Spalding, Rodney L. Burton and Herman Krier, University of
Illinois, Urbana, IL.
11:30 A.M. GG3.7
HIGH-TEMPERATURE OXYGEN DISSOLUTION IN LIQUID ZIRCONIUM, Irina E. Molodetsky,
Princeton University, Mechanical and Aerospace Department, Princeton, NJ; and
Edward L. Dreizin, AeroChem Research Laboratories, Princeton, NJ.
11:45 A.M. GG3.8
SELF-AFFINITY OF COMBUSTION-GENERATED AGGREGATES, Alexander V. Neimark, Unit O.
Koylu and Daniel E. Rosner, Yale University, Chemical Engineering Department,
New Haven, CT.
SESSION GG3 COMBUSTION MECHANISM (III & IV)
Chairs: Ross Sausa and Merrill Beckstead
Tuesday Afternoon, November 28
St. George C/D (W)
1:30 P.M. *GG3.9
SOLID PROPELLANT FLAME STRUCTURE, Tim Parr and Donna Hanson-Parr, Naval Air
Warfare Center, China Lake, CA.
2:00 P.M. GG3.10
NITRIC OXIDE INTERACTIONS WITH C2 HYDROCARBON SPECIES, Bradley A. Williams and
Louise Pasternack, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC.
2:15 P.M. GG3.11
PRODUCTS AND KINETICS OF FLASH PYROLYSIS OF PEG: A MINIMUM SMOKE BINDER,
Haruyuki Arisawa and Thomas B. Brill, University of Delaware, Department of
Chemistry, Newark, DE.
2:30 P.M. GG3.12
KINETICS AND SPECIES OF FLASH PYROLYSIS OF CELLULOSE ACETATE BUTYRATE: THE
BINDER OF LOVA, Polly E. Gongwer, Haruyuki Arisawa and Thomas B. Brill,
University of Delaware, Department of Chemistry, Newark, DE.
2:45 P.M. GG3.13
NEW ENERGETIC EPOXY BINDERS, Sampat R. Jain, and Syed Amanulla, Indian
Institute of Science, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Bangalore, India.
3:00 P.M. BREAK
3:30 P.M. *GG3.14
COMBUSTION CHEMISTRY OF ENERGETIC MATERIALS STUDIED BY PROBING MASS
SPECTROMETRY, Oleg P. Korobeinichev, Leonid V. Kuibida, Alexander A. Paletsky
and Anatoliy A. Chernov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Chemical
Kinetic and Combustion, Novosibirsk, Russia.
4:00 P.M. GG3.15
ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY OF SOLID PROPELLANT FLAME, Yeu-Cherng Lu, Abdullah Ulas
and Kenneth K. Kuo, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Mechanical
Engineering, University Park, PA.
4:15 P.M. GG3.16
AN EIGENVALUE APPROACH FOR COMPUTING THE BURNING RATE OF RDX PROPELLANTS,
Kuldeep Prasad, Yale University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, New
Haven, CT; Richard Yetter, Princeton University, Department of Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering, Princeton, NJ; and Mitchell Smooke, Yale University,
Department of Mechanical Engineering, New Haven, CT.
4:30 P.M. GG3.17
ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY OF HOT SPOT REACTION SITES IN IMPACTED RDX AND LASER
HEATED AP, J. Sharma, C.S. Coffey, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Silver Spring,
MD; and A. L. Ramaswamy, R.W. Armstrong, University of Maryland, College Park,
MD.
SESSION GG4: INITIATION AND DETONATION
(THEORY I & II)
Chairs: James F. Belak and Carter White
Wednesday Morning, November 29
St. George C/D (W)
8:30 A.M. *GG4.1
PROBING DETONATION PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY USING MOLECULAR DYNAMICS AND QUANTUM
CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES, Malcolm D. Cook, Defence Research Agency, Kent, United
Kingdom.
9:00 A.M. GG4.2
EFFECTS OF NANOSCALE VOIDS ON THE SENSITIVITY OF MODEL ENERGETIC MATERIALS,
C.T. White, J.J.C. Barrett and J.W. Mintmire, Naval Research Laboratory,
Washington, DC; M.L. Elert, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and D.H.
Robertson, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Indianapolis,
IN.
9:15 A.M. GG4.3
HOTSPOTS IN A MOLECULAR SOLID UNDER RAPID COMPRESSION: ENERGY SHARING AMONG THE
T-R-V DEGREES OF FREEDOM, D.H. Tsai, Potommac, MD.
9:30 A.M. GG4.4
ROLE OF ELECTRONIC EXCITED STATES IN INITIATION PROCESSES IN SOLID ENERGETICS,
A. Barry Kunz, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI.
9:45 A.M. GG4.5
MOLECULAR DYNAMICS CALCULATIONS ON THE PROPORTIES OF THE REACTION ZONE IN
LIQUID EXPLOSIVE, L. Soulard, CEA/CEV-M, Courtry, France.
10:00 A.M. GG4.6
SIMULATIONS OF OZONE DETONATION USING A REACTIVE EMPIRICAL BOND ORDER (REBO)
POTENTIAL FOR THE OXYGEN SYSTEM, J.J.C. Barrett, Naval Research Laboratory,
Washington, DC; D.H. Robertson, Indiana University-Purdue University,
Department of Chemistry, Indianapolis, IN; D.W. Brenner, North Carolina State
University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Raleigh, NC; and
C.T. White, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC.
10:15 A.M. GG4.7
MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF VARYING EXOTHERMICITY ON THE
PROPERTIES OF CONDENSED-PHASE DETONATION, M.L. Elert, U.S. Naval Academy,
Annapolis, MD; D.H. Robertson, Indiana University-Purdue University, Department
of Chemistry, Indianapolis, IN; and C.T. White, Naval Research Laboratory,
Washington, DC.
10:30 A.M. BREAK
11:00 A.M. *GG4.8
DDT IN GRANULAR ENERGETIC MATERIALS, S.F. Son, B.W Asay, J.B. Bdzil and E.M.
Kober, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM.
11:30 A.M. GG4.9
A SIMPLIFIED METHOD FOR DETERMINING REACTIVE RATE PARAMETERS FOR REACTION
IGNITION AND GROWTH IN EXPLOSIVES, Philip J. Miller, Naval Air Warfare Center,
Weapons Division, China Lake, China.
11:45 A.M. GG4.10
ENERGY DISSIPATION, PLASTIC FLOW AND CONSTRAINTS ON STEADY STATE DETONATION,
C.S. Coffey, Naval Surface Warfare Center, White Oak Laboratory, Silver Spring,
CO.
SESSION GG5: INITIATION AND DETONATION (EXP I & II)
Chairs: Paul Eurtiev and William Tao
Wednesday Afternoon, November 29
St. George C/D (W)
1:30 P.M. *GG5.1
SHOCK INITIATION OF MATERIALS, Boris Litvinov, Russian Federal Nuclear Center,
Chelyabink, Russia.
2:00 P.M. *GG5.2
INVESTIGATION OF SHOCK-INDUCED CHEMICAL DECOMPOSITION OF PURE AND SENSITIZED
NITROMETHANE THROUGH TIME-RESOLVED OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY, G.I. Pangilinan, Y.A.
Gruzdkov and Y.M. Gupta, Washington State University, Shock Dynamics Center,
Department of Physics, Pullman, WA.
2:30 P.M. GG5.3
ULTRAFAST DYNAMICS OF SHOCK WAVES AND SHOCKED ENERGETIC MATERIALS, Dana D.
Dlott, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.
2:45 P.M. GG5.4
EXPLOSIVE ENERGETIC PROPERTIES: THEORETICAL STUDIES AND ULTRA-FAST
SPECTROSCOPY, D. Delpeyroux, C. Lafon, D. Mathieu and Ph. Simonetti, CEA -
Centre d'Etudes Le Ripualt, Monts, France.
3:00 P.M. BREAK
3:30 P.M. *GG5.5
DETONATION CHEMISTRY OF GLYCIDYL AZIDE POLYMER, Jill Sakata, Ping Ling and
Charles A. Wight, University of Utah, Department of Chemistry, Salt Lake City,
UT.
4:00 P.M. GG5.6
HETEROGENEOUS REACTIONS OF BORON IN CHNOF AND CHINO ENVIRONMENTS USING HIGH
PRESSURE MATRIX ISOLATION, Jane K. Rice and Thomas P. Russell, Naval Research
Laboratory, Chemistry Division/Code 6110, Washington, DC.
4:15 P.M. GG5.7
EXPLOSIVE THERMAL DECOMPOSITION MECHANISM OF NTO, David J. Beardall, Tod R.
Botcher and Charles A. Wight, University of Utah, Department of Chemistry, Salt
Lake City, UT.
4:30 P.M. GG5.8
HIGH-PRESSURE TIME-RESOLVED OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY OF THE CHEMICAL REACTIONS
RELATED TO DEFLAGRATION AND NON-IDEAL DETONATIONS, T.P. Russell, Naval Research
Laboratory, Chemistry Division, Washington, DC; and Y.M. Gupta, Washington
State University, Shock Dynamics Laboratory, Physics Department, Pullman,
WA.
4:45 P.M. GG5.9
TIME-RESOLVED EMISSION STUDIES OF ALUMINUM AND WATER HIGH PRESSURE REACTIONS,
C.A. Brown, T.P. Russell, Naval Research Laboratory, Chemistry Division,
Washington, DC; and Y. M. Gupta, Washington State University, Physics
Department, Pullman, WA.
SESSION GG5: INITIATION AND DETONATION (EXP III)
Chairs: Thomas Russell and Robert Wardle
Thursday Morning, November 30
St. George C/D (W)
8:30 A.M. *GG5.10
DETONATION IN SHOCK-COMPRESSED HOMOGENEOUS EXPLOSIVES, C.S. Yoo, N.C. Holmes
and P.C. Souers, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA.
9:00 A.M. *GG5.11
DYNAMIC CHEMICAL PROCESSES OF DETONATIONS, Vladimir Slupsky, N.N. Semenov
Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
9:30 A.M. GG5.12
REACTIVE FLOW MODEL FOR NON-IDEAL EXPLOSIVES CONTAINING COUPLED REACTION
KINETICS FOR DETONATION AND COMBUSTION, Philip J. Miller, Naval Air Warfare
Center, Weapons Division, China Lake, CA.
9:45 A.M. GG5.13
DETONATION CHEMISTRY OF UNDERWATER EXPLOSIVES, G.B. Wilmot, J.S. Deiter and
S.L. Turner, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, MD.
10:00 A.M. GG5.14
HIGH PRESSURE EQUATION OF STATE FOR Fe2O3, Frank J. Zerilli and Hermenzo D.
Jones, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Division, Silver Spring,
MD.
10:15 A.M. BREAK
SESSION GG6: NOVEL MATERIALS
Chairs: Thomas Russell and Robert Wardle
Thursday Morning, November 30
St. George C/D (W)
10:30 A.M. GG6.1
DETONATION AND DEFLAGRATION PRPOERTIES OF PYROTECHNIC MIXTURES, Katsumi Tanaka,
National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research, Tsukuba Research Center,
Tsukuba, Japan.
10:45 A.M. GG6.2
SHOCK INDUCED ENERGETIC PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS, R.D. Bardo, Naval Surface
Warfare Center, Silver Spring, MD.
11:00 A.M. GG6.3
DETONATION SYNTHESIS OF NANO-SIZE MATERIALS, J. Forbes, J. Davis and C. Wong,
Naval Surface Warfare Center, Silver Spring, MD.
11:15 A.M. GG6.4
METAL/METAL EXOTHERMIC REACTIONS INDUCED BY LOW VELOCITY IMPACT, Diana L.
Woody, Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division, China Lake, CA; Jeffrey J.
Davis and Phil J. Miller, Naval Surface Warfare Center, White Oak, MD.
11:30 A.M. GG6.5
A STUDY ON THE KINETICS OF THE FORMATION OF NIOBIUM CARBIDE UNDER COMBUSTION
SYNTHESIS CONDITIONS, C. He and G.C. Stangle, Alfred University, New York State
College of Cramics, Alfred, NY.
11:45 A.M. GG6.6
STUDY ON HAZARD CHARACTERISTICS AMMONIUM PERCHLORATE BASED HTPB PROPELLANT,
Ramu, V.N. Krishnamurthy and Vikram Sarabhai, Space Centre, Kerala, India.
12:00 NOON GG6.7
ESTIMATION OF THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY CONDITIONS AND PERSPECTIVES FOR SYNTHESIS
OF CARBON NITRIDE, Victor V. Odintsov and Vitaly I. Pepekin, N.N. Semenov
Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
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