A simple method of estimating the detonation velocity from chemical composition of organic explosives

✍ Scribed by R. Sundararajan; S.R. Jain

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 398 KB
• Volume: 45
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-2180
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-2180(82)90032-3

✦ Synopsis

A simple yet fairly accurate method of calculating the ideal detonation velocity of an organic explosive from a knowledge of the chemical composition alone is proposed. The method is based on the concept that the energetics of a stoichiomea-ically balanced fuel-oxidizer system is a function of the total oxidizing or reducing valences of the composition. A combination of the valences in the form of [(R -P)/R'P].MW, where R and P are, respectively, the reducing and oxidizing valences and MW is the molecular weight, has been found to be linearly related to the detonation velocity of the expoiosive. The predicting capacity of the method has been found to be superior to other methods in the literature.