Thermal stability and sensitivity of RDX-based aluminized explosives: Difference between the initial and complete thermal decompositions

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1939-1948

  Liu, Rui ^a   Yang, Li ^a   Zhou, Zunning ^a   Zhang, Tonglai ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Aluminized explosives; Kinetics; Thermal analysis; Thermal sensitivity; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

ALUMINIZED EXPLOSIVES; CHARACTERISTIC TEMPERATURE; COMPOSITE EXPLOSIVE; DECOMPOSITION CHARACTERISTICS; STABILITY OF EXPLOSIVES; THERMAL DECOMPOSITION BEHAVIOR; THERMAL SENSITIVITY; THERMODYNAMIC PARAMETER;

ALUMINUM; ENZYME KINETICS; EXPLOSIVES; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

DECOMPOSITION;

EID: 84893657455     PISSN: 13886150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10973-013-3468-6     Document Type: Article

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