Effect of defects on initiation of chemistry in HMX

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1195, Issue , 2009, Pages 353-356

  Sharia, Onise ^a   Kuklja, Maija M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Defects; Density functional theory; HMX; Shear strain

Indexed keywords

EID: 74949124146     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3295142     Document Type: Conference Paper

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