Correlation of physical and chemical properties of c-h-n-o explosives (part II)

✍ Scribed by Jaimin Lee; Andrew Block-Bolten

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 578 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0721-3115
• DOI: 10.1002/prep.19930180309

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

In our previous paper^(1)^ we correlated the physical, chemical, and thermodynamic properties of C‐H‐N‐O explosives with their constant‐volume explosion properties calculated by using the Taylor model implemented in the Nitrodyne code. In this paper, we added the correlations for the Chapman‐Jouguet detonation properties calculated by using the Becker‐Kistiakowsky‐Wilson equation of state implemented in the TIGER code. By splitting the correlation variable (F) used in Reference 1 into a density term and a density‐independent term (f), Chapman‐Jouguet detonation pressure and velocity showed simple linear relationships with square root of the new correlation variable (f). Other detonation properties were derived from the detonation pressure and velocity: Correlation of constant‐volume explosion properties with the new correlation variable (f) showed both a moderate improvement, compared to those with the old correlation variable (F), and a much simpler relationship.